Mission: Motherhood

Mission: Motherhood
Marta Perry

Overnight, Caitlyn Villard becomes mother to twin five-year-olds. Her darling nieces are orphaned, their parents fallen soldiers. So Caitlyn trades New York City for Prairie Springs, Texas, the small military town she'd run from at first chance. Loving the girls is easy. Learning how to be a slow-paced soccer mom is not. Which is where handsome army chaplain Steve Windham steps in.Just in time to show Caitlyn that sometimes you find the man–and life–of your dreams where you least expected.

Was Caitlyn up to the responsibility she’d inherited?

Steve studied her, frowning a little. He remembered her well, even though she’d been three years behind him in school. Maybe she’d stood apart because of the fierce ambition she’d shown even then.

She’d used that single-minded determination of hers to take the big city by storm. From what he could see, apparently she’d made it, despite all the obstacles there must have been for a girl from Texas with no money.

And now, Caitlyn Villard had grown into a beauty—if you liked women who were sophisticated, even icy. But the important thing wasn’t how she looked. What was crucial was whether she could be a mother to her twin nieces.

Homecoming Heroes: Saving children and finding love deep in the heart of Texas

Mission: Motherhood—Marta Perry (LI#452)

July 2008

Lone Star Secret—Lenora Worth (LI#456)

August 2008

At His Command—Brenda Coulter (LI#460)

September 2008

A Matter of the Heart—Patricia Davids (LI#464)

October 2008

A Texas Thanksgiving—Margaret Daley (LI#468)

November 2008

Homefront Holiday—Jillian Hart (LI#472)

December 2008

MARTA PERRY

has written everything from Sunday school curriculum to travel articles to magazine stories in more than twenty years of writing, but she feels she’s found her writing home in the stories she writes for Love Inspired.

Marta lives in rural Pennsylvania, but she and her husband spend part of each year at their second home in South Carolina. When she’s not writing, she’s probably visiting her children and her six beautiful grandchildren, traveling, gardening or relaxing with a good book.

Marta loves hearing from readers, and she’ll write back with a signed bookmark or her brochure of Pennsylvania Dutch recipes. Write to her c/o Steeple Hill Books, 233 Broadway, Suite 1001, New York, NY 10279, e-mail her at marta@martaperry.com, or visit her on the Web at www.martaperry.com.

Mission: Motherhood

Marta Perry

Special thanks and acknowledgment to Marta Perry for her contribution to the Homecoming Heroes miniseries

Bear one another’s burdens,

and so fulfill the law of Christ.

—Galatians 6:2

This story is dedicated to the Love Inspired sisters

who worked on this continuity series—

Lenora, Brenda, Pat, Margaret and Jillian.

And, as always, to Brian, with much love.

Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen