To escape a shattered engagement, seventeen-year-old Jillian Grey answers the ad of Dalton McCullough, a widowed Wisconsin farmer seeking a mother for his three children—nothing more. Both vow to keep their hearts closed, but as Jillian wins over his grieving daughter and tends his late wife's flower garden, the walls around Dalton's heart begin to crumble. When a vengeful figure from Jillian's past follows her west, the fragile new family must fight for the love they never planned to find. A marriage of convenience with a strict 'in name only' agreement—that neither heart can keep. A grieving widower carries his late wife's cameo everywhere; can a mail-order bride teach him to love again? Meddling matchmaking aunt and uncle steal the show in this sweet frontier romance. A jilted, unhinged ex-fiancé chases the heroine west for a suspenseful third-act rescue. “You may as well already consider me a married woman, Father. I am bound by my word.”Perfect for a reader who loves sweet, faith-tinged historical romances about widowers, mail-order brides, and hard-won second-chance love with no explicit content.
