Milstead Doreen Milstead 
Life Is Like a Beautiful Painting: Four Historical Romance Novellas 

The Smallest of the Orphans – A destitute woman in New York gives birth to a tiny baby and the orphanage there is unsure of the newborn’s survival. After feeling that it’s the baby’s only chance for a good life, a friend of the orphanage takes the baby out to Indiana for adoption by a childless couple PLUS The Widow & Her Baby Meet The Handyman Along The Oregon Trail – A widow tries to provide for her baby along the arduous trek of the Oregon Trail. When a mysterious stranger joins the train, carrying precious little other than his carpentry tools, he tells her that the Lord will provide, if she has faith PLUS Unchaining My Love – Facing a hard task back east to get her doctor’s practice started, a woman heads for the west with great optimism, and finds so much more than a medical career PLUS The Secret Message – A poor and lonely Victorian woman eking out her living in Brighton by making seashell jewelry finds a message in a bottle on the beach and vows to find the man who wrote it.