High Country Bride - (McKettrick Cowboys) by Linda Lael Miller (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

One ranch. Three sons. Only one will inherit, and on one condition.

Tired of waiting for his sons to settle down, Arizona-territory rancher Angus McKettrick announces a competition: the first son to marry and produce a grandchild will inherit Triple M ranch. Now, three distinctly different, equally determined cowboys are searching high and low for brides.

Rafe McKettrick loves only one thing more than his freedom--the Triple M ranch. In his bid to win it, he marries a woman he's never met. To his surprise, Emmeline is as beautiful as she is spirited...but she's clearly hiding a secret.

Emmeline Harding discovered she couldn't hold her liquor the hard way. Uncertain why she woke up next to a stack of gold coins in a brothel and fearing the worst, she fled town as a mail-order bride. Now, she must confess her past to her handsome new husband.

But as the newlyweds are suspiciously circling each other, a visitor from the past enters the high country. Can Rafe and Emmeline give up on a marriage in name only and seek a union that satisfies them body and soul?