Garters (Small Town Swains)

Garters (Small Town Swains)

Esme Crabb has spent a lifetime in the mountains trying to stir up good gravy from watery “poor-do”. And she’s had no help from her ne’er-do-well father or silly sisters. The family lives rough and gets by beholden to their neighbors. <br />Esme was hoping the twins could marry well, but like everything that needs doing in her family, it seems she has to do it herself. <br />Cleavis Rhy, Vader, Tennessee’s prosperous storekeep hardly takes notice of the raggedy hill girl. That is until she asks him to marry her. <br />That will never happen. <br />Cleav, a would-be gentleman, has been all the way to Knoxville for study. And as self-taught pisciculturist he corresponds with some of the best academics in the field. He has a love of reading and an enjoyment of stimulating conversation. His romantic ambitions lie, much more reasonably, in the direction of the quiet and refined charms of the pastor’s daughter. <br />An ignorant hill girl in a shabby dress and sagging stockings holds no interest for him. Nothing on earth could ever bring those two together. <br />Never underestimate the power of a pair of garters. <br /><br />