First Comes Marriage

Janine Hartman loved her grandfather dearly — but she balked at his plan to choose her a husband. Zach Thomas, the intended groom, didn’t like it any better.

Zach had recently merged his business with the Hartman family firm, and that was the only Hartman-Thomas merger he wanted. But Grandfather had other ideas, ideas belonging to a different place, a different time, when marriages were arranged by families. ‘It would be a perfect match,’ he insisted. ‘You two suit each other.’

Zach and Janine didn’t agree. In fact, they agreed on only one thing — that Gramps was a stubborn, meddling old man. But…what if he was right?