Enchanting Nicholette

In this captivating novella by Dawn Crandall, Nicholette Everstone is already a widow at the age of twenty-two: her husband was murdered on their wedding day. She has just returned to Boston after two years of mourning in Europe. Although her husband was loving, the marriage was an arranged one, and Nicholette would like to wed again—this time for love...and to someone safe.
Cal Hawthorne has been interested in Nicholette for years. But right now, he’s busy helping the police trying to catch his rotten cousin, who has tricked young women into prostitution in Maine. Cal is also living under an assumed name; his late father left his fortune to his secret mistress and their six young children.
Is Cal’s work too risky for Nicholette to pin her hopes on him? And will her heart be strong enough to keep her fears of “what if” at bay?

A graduate of Taylor University with a Bachelor of Arts in Christian Education, Dawn Crandall started writing her first inspirational historical romance, The Hesitant Heiress, in 2010. The novel went on to become the 2015 American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) Carol Award Finalist for Debut Novel and received the 2015 Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence in the Inspirational Category.
Dawn authored three more books in her Everstone Chronicles series: The Bound Heart (2014); The Captive Imposter (2015); and The Cautious Maiden (2016). The Bound Heart received the 2015 Clash of the Titles Laurel Award.
Prior to becoming an author, Dawn worked with AmeriCorps, was a bookseller at Barnes & Noble, worked at a large pediatric dentist office, taught at a preschool, and answered phones at a downtown construction company in Indianapolis. She serves as secretary of ACFW’s Indiana Chapter.
She and her husband, Jonathan, live with their two sons on a hobby farm in northeast Indiana.