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Praise for the novels of #1
New York Times
bestselling author
DEBBIE MACOMBER

“Macomber’s assured storytelling and affirming narrative is as welcoming as your favorite easy chair.”


Publishers Weekly
on
Twenty Wishes

“It’s impossible not to cheer for Macomber’s characters.…When it comes to creating a special place and memorable, honorable characters, nobody does it better than Macomber.”


BookPage
on
Twenty Wishes

“It’s clear that Debbie Macomber cares deeply about her fully realized characters and their family, friends and loves, along with their hopes and dreams. She also makes her readers care about them.”


Bookreporter.com
on
Susannah’s Garden

“It’s easy to see why Macomber is a perennial favorite: she writes great books."


RomanceJunkies.com

“Macomber is a master storyteller.”


Romantic Times BOOKreviews

“Macomber spins another pure-from-the-heart romance giddy with love and warm laughter.”


BookPage
on
The Snow Bride

“Debbie Macomber has written a compelling book that is absolutely unputdownable…one of the most compelling books I’ve read in a very long time.”


The Best Reviews
on
Changing Habits

“Popular romance author Debbie Macomber has a gift for evoking the emotions that are at the heart of the genre’s popularity.”


Publishers Weekly

“Debbie Macomber writes characters who are as warm and funny as your best friends.”


New York Times
bestselling author Susan Wiggs

Also by Debbie Macomber

Blossom Street Books

THE SHOP ON BLOSSOM STREET

A GOOD YARN

SUSANNAH’S GARDEN

BACK ON BLOSSOM STREET

TWENTY WISHES

SUMMER ON BLOSSOM STREET

Cedar Cove Series

16 LIGHTHOUSE ROAD

204 ROSEWOOD LANE

311 PELICAN COURT

44 CRANBERRY POINT

50 HARBOR STREET

6 RAINIER DRIVE

74 SEASIDE AVENUE

8 SANDPIPER WAY

A CEDAR COVE CHRISTMAS

The Manning Family

THE MANNING SISTERS

THE MANNING BRIDES

THE MANNING GROOMS

Dakota Series

DAKOTA BORN

DAKOTA HOME

ALWAYS DAKOTA

Midnight Sons

VOLUME 1

(Brides for Brothers
and
The Marriage Risk)

Heart of Texas Series

VOLUME 1

(Lonesome Cowboy
and
Texas Two-Step)

VOLUME 2

(Caroline’s Child
and
Dr. Texas)

VOLUME 3

(Nell’s Cowboy
and
Lone Star Baby)

PROMISE, TEXAS

RETURN TO PROMISE

Christmas Books

A GIFT TO LAST

ON A SNOWY NIGHT

HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS

GLAD TIDINGS

CHRISTMAS WISHES

SMALL TOWN CHRISTMAS

WHEN CHRISTMAS COMES

THERE’S SOMETHING

ABOUT CHRISTMAS

CHRISTMAS LETTERS

WHERE ANGELS GO

THIS MATTER OF MARRIAGE

MONTANA

THURSDAYS AT EIGHT

BETWEEN FRIENDS

CHANGING HABITS

MARRIED IN SEATTLE

(First Comes Marriage
and
Wanted: Perfect Partner)

RIGHT NEXT DOOR

(Father’s Day
and
The Courtship of Carol Sommars)

DEBBIE MACOMBER
Midnight Sons

VOLUME
2

For Janet and Claude Robinson. Thank you for all the warmth
in a cold climate. We appreciated your generosity and hospitality.

Dear Friends,

Here you have it, volume two of the MIDNIGHT SONS series, which includes
Daddy’s Little Helper
and
Because of the Baby.
I hope you’ve enjoyed the series so far. I know I enjoyed writing it. And I’m delighted that my publisher has chosen to reissue these books, since (to my immense gratitude) readers have been asking for them.

MIDNIGHT SONS was my first venture into writing six closely connected books. I loved the way it expanded my horizons as an author. I’d never taken on such a huge project and admittedly I was a bit apprehensive. Because I felt I needed to know what Alaska was really like before starting the first book, my husband and I flew to Anchorage and then on to Fairbanks and eventually landed in the tiny town of Bettles, which is situated above the Arctic Circle. That trip, and the research it allowed me to do, added a great deal of personal pleasure to the writing of these stories. I’m grateful for everything I learned and saw in Alaska. We had plenty of adventures (some of them hilarious) and I feel the experience of spending time there brought texture and authenticity to the books.

I’m pleased to say that the series proved to be so popular my publisher asked me to do another one—HEART OF TEXAS, which I wrote a few years later. I followed the same approach, beginning with a research trip.

These two series had a profound influence on my writing career and eventually led to the Cedar Cove series.

So there it is—the history of Debbie Macomber and her series evolution. Volume three won’t be far behind.

As always I love receiving reader feedback. You can reach me in two ways, from my Web site at www.DebbieMacomber.com or by writing to P.O. Box 1458, Port Orchard, WA 98366.

Warmest regards,

The History of Hard Luck, Alaska

Hard Luck, situated fifty miles north of the Arctic Circle, near the Brooks Range, was founded by Adam O’Halloran and his wife, Anna, in 1931. Adam came to Alaska to make his fortune, but never found the gold strike he sought. Nevertheless, the O’Hallorans and their two young sons, Charles and David, stayed on—in part because of a tragedy that befell the family a few years later.

Other prospectors and adventurers began to move to Hard Luck, some of them bringing wives and children. The town became a stopping-off place for mail, equipment and supplies. The Fletcher family arrived in 1938 to open a dry goods store.

When World War II began, Hard Luck’s population was fifty or sixty people all told. Some of the young men, including the O’Halloran sons, joined the armed services; Charles left for Europe in 1942, David in 1944 at the age of eighteen. Charles died during the fighting. Only David came home—with a young English war bride, Ellen Sawyer (despite the fact that he’d become engaged to Catherine Fletcher shortly before going overseas).

After the war, David qualified as a bush pilot. He then built some small cabins to attract the sport fishermen and hunters who were starting to come to Alaska; he also worked as a guide. Eventually he built a lodge to replace the cabins—a lodge that was later damaged by fire.

David and Ellen had three sons, born fairly late in their marriage—Charles (named after David’s brother) was born in 1960, Sawyer in 1963 and Christian in 1965.

Hard Luck had been growing slowly all this time and by 1970 it was home to just over a hundred people. These were the years of the oil boom, when the school and community center were built by the state. After Vietnam, ex-serviceman Ben Hamilton joined the community and opened the Hard Luck Café, which became the social focus for the town.

In the late 1980s the three O’Halloran brothers formed a partnership, creating Midnight Sons, a bush-pilot operation. They were awarded the mail contract, and they also delivered fuel and other necessities to the interior. In addition, they served as a small commuter airline, flying passengers to and from Fairbanks and within the northern Arctic.

In 1995, at the time these stories start, there were approximately 150 people living in Hard Luck—the majority of them male.…

Now, almost fifteen years later, join the people here in looking back at their history—particularly the changes that occurred when Midnight Sons invited women to town. Women who transformed Hard Luck, Alaska, forever!

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