The Shepherd's Daughter
(2026)(The second book in the Sybil Cook's Victorian Christmas series)
A novel by Sybil Cook
At the Michaelmas hiring fair on Exmoor, Dorcas Legg stands in the rain with a wisp of raw wool tucked into her cap. It tells every farmer on the moor exactly what she is: a shepherd's daughter who knows a flock better than most men alive.
And every farmer laughs.
Every one except Reuben Yeandle.
The widowed master of Sherracombe Barton wants a maid for his kitchen, not a shepherd for his hill. He holds out the fasten penny on his open palm with a single condition. She is to keep away from his sheep.
It is a promise Dorcas cannot keep. Not when a lame ewe goes unnoticed in his field. Not when sleet comes roaring off the high ground and his wethers are drifting towards the combe.
Reuben has buried a wife, sold his family's precious flock to pay his father's debts, and stopped expecting anything of life. Dorcas learned long ago that if you let people see what you want, they take it from you. Neither of them is looking for love.
But the kindly wool stapler who holds Reuben's debts has taken an interest in the clever shepherd girl. And when Dorcas begins to question what happens to the moor's wool, she risks losing everything she has come to love.
Can a hired girl with scarred hands win a place on the hill, and in a guarded man's heart, before the year is up?
Genre: Historical Romance
And every farmer laughs.
Every one except Reuben Yeandle.
The widowed master of Sherracombe Barton wants a maid for his kitchen, not a shepherd for his hill. He holds out the fasten penny on his open palm with a single condition. She is to keep away from his sheep.
It is a promise Dorcas cannot keep. Not when a lame ewe goes unnoticed in his field. Not when sleet comes roaring off the high ground and his wethers are drifting towards the combe.
Reuben has buried a wife, sold his family's precious flock to pay his father's debts, and stopped expecting anything of life. Dorcas learned long ago that if you let people see what you want, they take it from you. Neither of them is looking for love.
But the kindly wool stapler who holds Reuben's debts has taken an interest in the clever shepherd girl. And when Dorcas begins to question what happens to the moor's wool, she risks losing everything she has come to love.
Can a hired girl with scarred hands win a place on the hill, and in a guarded man's heart, before the year is up?
Genre: Historical Romance