A Place to Call Our Own

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A Place to Call Our Own

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A PLACE TO CALL OUR OWN

The Friessens

LORHAINNE ECKHART

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A Place To Call Our Own

The Friessen Family Series Reading order:

The Friessen Family Tree

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

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A Place To Call Our Own

From New York Times & USA Today bestselling author Lorhainne Eckhart comes a story of family, romance, and finding a place to call home.

Brad Friessen knows he has to sell the ranch, but not everyone is on board with his decision or open to a new beginning. He has a plan: Find a nice place with some land where he can retire—but for his children, life has suddenly become much more complicated.

Katy and Steven have called the ranch home and aren’t inclined to see the adventure in their upcoming move. While Emily, Jack and Trevor, and Fletcher are somewhat open to the possibilities, what Brad doesn’t know is that Katy and Steven had a plan, too. The life they’ve always wanted is the kind of life Brad and Emily have, with the ranch, the land, and eventually more children.

Finding a cheap, rundown house to rent wasn’t in the cards for Katy and Steven, nor has it been easy for either to be practical when their dream of having a ranch of their own to run, to raise a family on, seems to be moving ever further out of reach.

As the countdown begins to the date they have to leave, to the sale of the one place they’ve all called home for what’s seemed like forever, Katy and Steven, Brad and Emily, and the rest of the Friessen family might just be crazy enough to find a way for them all to have what they truly want.

The Friessen Family Series Reading order:

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The Outsider Series

The Forgotten Child (Brad and Emily)

A Baby And A Wedding

Fallen Hero (Andy, Jed, and Diana)

The Search

The Awakening (Andy and Laura)

Secrets (Jed and Diana)

Runaway (Andy and Laura)

Overdue

The Unexpected Storm (Neil and Candy)

The Wedding (Neil and Candy)

The Friessens: A New Beginning

The Deadline (Andy and Laura)

The Price to Love (Neil and Candy)

A Different Kind of Love (Brad and Emily)

A Vow of Love, A Friessen Family Christmas

The Friessens

The Reunion

The Bloodline (Andy & Laura)

The Promise (Diana & Jed)

The Business Plan (Neil & Candy)

The Decision (Brad & Emily)

First Love (Katy)

Family First

Leave the Light On

In the Moment

In the Family: A Friessen Family Christmas

In the Silence

In the Stars

In the Charm

Unexpected Consequences

It Was Always You

The First Time I Saw You

Welcome to My Arms

Welcome to Boston

I’ll Always Love You

Ground Rules

A Reason to Breathe

You Are My Everything

Anything For You

The Homecoming includes FREE short story When They Were Young

Stay Away From My Daughter

The Bad Boy

A Place to Call Our Own

The Visitor

All About Devon

Long Past Dawn

How to Heal a Heart

Keep Me In Your Heart

Want to know how all the series are linked? Stop by my blog for all the details: http://www.lorhainneeckhart.com/what-is-the-reading-order-of-your-books/

Now Available at a specially reduced price, The Friessen Legacy Collections:

1) The Outsider Series: The Complete Omnibus Collection

2) The Friessens A New Beginning: The Collection

3) The Friessens Books 1 - 5 Box Set

4) The Friessens Books 6 -8

5) The Friessen Books 9 - 11

6) The Friessen Books 12 - 14

7) The Friessen Books 15 - 18

8) The Friessen Books 19 -21

9. The Friessen Books 22 - 24

10) The Friessens Books 25 - 27

11) The Friessens Books 28 - 31

The Friessen Family Tree

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Chapter One

If Brad were anyone else, he would likely have understood why people assumed that he was being forced to sell as a result of having had a gun to his head, that this was nothing but a knee-jerk reaction to protect his family. But they were wrong.

Selling the Friessen ranch felt akin to stepping off the dock without a life jacket, not knowing what would be next for them. It was exciting, terrifying, and something he’d never planned for. If this had happened ten or even twenty years earlier, he likely wouldn’t have been so inclined to sell and walk, considering this was all he’d known, but for the first time in Brad’s life, he truly believed he was now completely, one hundred percent in charge of his future, his direction, and the choices he made for his family. He now had a blank canvas and no idea where he and his family would go.

It was chaotic. There would be a monetary windfall, but not everyone in his family was as open to the adventure or to what was yet to come. They weren’t ready to accept the unknown and just go with it. But then, how many years had it taken him to get to a point where he was comfortable with just letting things be as they were?

So you think that’s the last of it today? Emily said. "Because seriously, Brad, I’m getting tired of keeping the house this ridiculously show-home freaking clean, with not even a glass on the counter or in the sink. Do you have any idea how difficult that is, considering everyone who lives here? You know, I’d like to walk into my living room and relax, curl up with a book and a tea, and not worry about leaving a mark on the coffee table—which has never been this polished. Then I’d like to walk up the stairs and see all the family photos, the personal touches that make this our home.

I still can’t believe you listened to that ridiculous realtor who insisted we had to stage the place, she continued. "There’s no personalization, and it’s so impossibly neat that no one is comfortable. I mean, what difference is this really going to make for people coming in here? They should see it as a home, our home. I’ve had enough. I just want my house back, without the endless interruptions and strangers going through our—no, my personal things." Emily pulled in a breath, and he could see the toll this was taking on her, having a bunch of strangers parading through their house, their property, day in and day out. Worse, they had to keep the kids from touching or moving anything.

He knew Emily was rattled, and he just watched her as she pulled open the fridge and then closed it, tossing her hands in the air. He took in her red and black flannel shirt and faded blue jeans. Her hair was clipped up in a messy bun, which had dried with a little more natural wave than she liked, but then, she’d had to hurry out of the shower after he received a call from their realtor about a last-minute showing for someone who was in town only briefly.

We got an offer, he finally said. He should have interrupted Emily earlier, but he was still considering what the realtor had said to him about it being almost perfect. What was it about that word, almost?

What?

He had expected shock, but instead she seemed confused. He shrugged, hearing the sound of a car door outside and knowing Steven was home. He recognized the sound of his pickup. He said nothing, instead pulling his hand over his chin and feeling the scrape of whiskers. He hadn’t had time to shave after checking on the cattle and seeing that Emily and the kids were out of the house so Pam, their realtor, could show the house without anyone breathing down her client’s neck. That was something she insisted on, the one thing that had truly bothered Emily.

She gestured toward him. Brad, come on. You can’t just say something like that and then nothing at all.

He walked over to the fridge, taking in the kitchen, which was the same as it had been when he was a little kid. Pam had said the dated layout