Small communities and practical working lives give Pamela Morsi’s American romances a setting far from aristocratic glamour. Simple Jess is set in the Ozarks and follows a widowed mother whose neighbours expect her to remarry while Jess, underestimated because of an intellectual disability, steadily proves his value to her and the community. Courting Miss Hattie centres on an older unmarried woman whose property and future suddenly attract attention, and Garters uses rural poverty and marriage ambition in another comic historical courtship. Morsi’s novels are warm, earthy and character-led, with humour and community pressure often more important than aristocratic glamour. The catalogue is most easily found through Her books Americana romance, small-town historical romance and relationship fiction about ordinary working lives. Read more Less