Two wounded hearts. One reluctant marriage. A love neither of them saw coming.
Millie Newton has spent years making herself smaller in a house that never truly welcomed her. When her aunt begins steering her toward a future with a much older man, Millie makes the boldest choice of her life: she answers a mail-order bride advertisement and boards a train to Montana.
Staying in Tennessee means surrendering to a future chosen by others. She arrives in Garnet Creek, Montana with a trunk, a sharp mind, and enough courage to build a life from whatever awaits her. What she finds is a husband who is handsome, distant, practical to the point of cruelty, and determined to keep their marriage as emotionless as the advertisement that brought her west.
Buck Turner needs a wife for reasons he has no intention of explaining. His ranch is slipping toward ruin, the bank is circling, and marriage may be the only thing that buys him enough time to save the land he has built with guilt, grit, and stubborn pride. He expects a capable woman. He does not expect Millie—tall, sharp-eyed, spirited, and entirely unwilling to disappear into the lonely corners of his life.
Under the wide Montana sky, two lonely souls discover that love can grow from the hardest bargains.
Genre: Historical Romance
Millie Newton has spent years making herself smaller in a house that never truly welcomed her. When her aunt begins steering her toward a future with a much older man, Millie makes the boldest choice of her life: she answers a mail-order bride advertisement and boards a train to Montana.
Staying in Tennessee means surrendering to a future chosen by others. She arrives in Garnet Creek, Montana with a trunk, a sharp mind, and enough courage to build a life from whatever awaits her. What she finds is a husband who is handsome, distant, practical to the point of cruelty, and determined to keep their marriage as emotionless as the advertisement that brought her west.
Buck Turner needs a wife for reasons he has no intention of explaining. His ranch is slipping toward ruin, the bank is circling, and marriage may be the only thing that buys him enough time to save the land he has built with guilt, grit, and stubborn pride. He expects a capable woman. He does not expect Millie—tall, sharp-eyed, spirited, and entirely unwilling to disappear into the lonely corners of his life.
Under the wide Montana sky, two lonely souls discover that love can grow from the hardest bargains.
Genre: Historical Romance
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