Mountain Bride — Peggy Gaddis

“Kate was a living temptation, a morsel of delight…”

Her back to him, kneeling beside a big basket which she was filling with carefully dug roots, was Kate. She was beautiful, there was no question about it. Clay knew just what Matt meant, Kate was a living temptation, a succulent morsel of delight… Suddenly aware of another's presence, Kate gasped and rose, whirling to face him in a single movement that had the unconscious grace of an animal. The sharp knife with which she had been digging was held gripped in her hand. Then she recognized him, her body went limp and the knife clattered to the ground. “Did you think it was Matt?...asked Clay quietly.”

Through no fault of her own, lovely mountain girl Kate Harper was a cause of endless trouble among the men of Harper's Settlement, because every man who saw her wanted her…