The Mail-Order Bride He Never Wanted: A Historical Western Romance of Redemption, Family, and a Second Chance at Love (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798257429743)

Clara Whitaker came to Montana expecting to become a wife.

Instead, she stepped off the stagecoach and learned the truth. The widowed rancher she crossed half the country to marry never wrote for a bride at all.

His lonely young daughter did.

Henry Johnson has no room in his life for surprises, and certainly not for a stranger standing on his doorstep with a battered suitcase and too much hurt in her eyes. He has children to raise, a ranch to keep running, and a heart he buried with his wife. The last thing he wants is a mail-order bride he never asked for.

But Clara has nowhere safe to go.

Staying was never part of the plan. Neither was the way she brings warmth back into a grieving home. Or the way Henry's guarded children begin to smile again. Or the way a hard, silent man starts looking at her as if she might be the answer to prayers he stopped praying long ago.

Yet Clara is not as free as she seems.

She came west to escape a past that nearly ruined her, and when old trouble follows her to Montana, the fragile new life growing between her and Henry is put at risk. To protect the family that has slowly become her own, Clara may have to walk away. And Henry must decide whether love is worth the cost of opening his heart a second time.

A tender historical western romance filled with family healing, quiet courage, and the kind of love that feels like coming home.