Miss Martha and Mrs. Mary

Love may not just be for the young, but Martha Vining, forty and still unmarried, likes the way she's living her life and has no intention of making major changes. But just before Christmas the new pastor in town seems to be courting her at the same time three troubled children come into her home. This is too much and too sudden for a successful career woman approaching her middle years and at times Martha wants her old life back even as she becomes more involved in the complicated lives of Galen Greer and the three Weaver kids. (A 17,000 word novella).