HaBO: Heroine Gets Proverbs Wrong

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This HaBO is from Lara, who is trying to find an old favorite of her grandma’s collection:

I find myself reminiscing about my Grandma (an OG smart bitch with a love of closed-door Romances of the Western variety…sexy scenes were considered too much mush). A few months after she passed away, I found myself walking through the romance section of my library and picked up a Western while thinking of her…my very first romance nearly a decade ago (now Regencies with marriages of convenience are my catnip). For the life of me can’t remember the title and I desperately want to read it again.

Here is what I do remember: The hero is a widower/farmer raising a couple little ones by himself. He is grouchy and doesn’t particularly care for the heroine at first, but needs help with his kids. The heroine is a happy-go-lucky (I don’t want to say ditsy…perhaps lacking an education?) drifter who goes wherever she feels a calling to help. Her kindness and goodness end up breaking down the hero’s walls and he fears she will leave.

What I can distinctly remember is the heroine always stating proverbs incorrectly. For example she might say “A horse divided against itself cannot gallop” when the phrase is really “A house divided against itself cannot stand”, same message just a different way of putting it. At first this greatly annoys the hero, but over time he comes to love her sayings and won’t let anyone correct her. I believe this may have been part of a series and the cover had a woman wishing on a dandelion on the front.

I’m certain that if any one can help me find this book, it’s the collective knowledge of the Bitchery!

I feel like we could fill volumes talking about our grandmas, nanas, or moms who had romance collections.