SOLVED. Heroine is a dollmaker while H is a lawyer with a mute child [s]

[Sarah]

Hi. I hope somebody could help me on this one. I have read a novel back in the day and its really good but unfortunately I could only remember the some of the plot and not the title. The book's plot (or the bits I remembered anyway) is as follows:

The story is set in a small town. h is a doll-maker while H is a city lawyer who recently moved in into town. H is widowed with a small daughter named Jenny. Jenny stopped talking at all due to the trams caused by the accident. (I think the mom and Jenny were involved in a car accident. Mom died but Jenny though alive was traumatized by the experience. h reads for children at the library once a week. It's the scene at the beginning of the book. I think h is offered to sell her dolls by a retail chain at one point in the story and H helped him through the negotiation of the contract. H knows carpentry and helped h renovate her house. Towards the end of the story Jenny finally able to speak up again (yay!)

Other bits and pieces: h is big breasted but is very self conscious about. She likes to wear Victorian style dresses. That and the fact that she's a dollmaker earned her a nickname across town. Can't remember the nickname though. This is an early 90s book.

[Sue]

Maybe 'Taming Natasha' by Nora Roberts. It's the first of her Stanislawski Family series.
"Broken promises, shattered dreams—Natasha Stanislaski left youthful indiscretions far behind when she settled in rural West Virginia. Her way with children made her toy store a success; her fiery temperament kept men safely at bay. Then brash Spence Kimball and his adorable little girl joined forces to nudge their way into her shop...and her closely guarded heart.
Sensing that a hidden wound was what made Natasha such a tigress, Spence cautiously probed her gentler emotions, nurturing the feelings she both longed for and dreaded. Slowly he felt her sensuality stir, felt her pain yield to passion. But when he vowed to love her always, make her his wife and the mother of his child, she bristled in terror. What would it take to tame her fears?"

[Sarah]

I'm afraid that's not it. She's not a shops keeper, she makes her dolls at home. Her dolls are like Cabbage Patch types. But thanks for the effort!

[Amber (Daisymau)]

Storybook Hero by Maris Soule.

[Ann aka Iftcan]

Storybook Hero (altho GR has no info on the book, but here's the clicker for it.)

[Cheryl]

This is now in the solved folder? Did Sarah move it? If so, I think it needs to be properly shelved - and maybe we can pull a one-sentence-descr. from the OP for the book record....