Stealing the Preacher's Heart — Mildred Colvin

Her father’s an outlaw. He’s a preacher with a teenaged daughter.When Lily agrees to her father’s deathbed request, she takes the place of a mail-order bride and marries a preacher in Kansas. She doesn’t expect to lose her heart to him and his daughter, and stealing his heart is the last thing on her mind, because she doesn’t believe in taking anything that doesn’t belong to her. A few months after their wedding, when she picks up the mail and finds a letter from the real mail-order bride, she does the only honorable thing.Elliott lost his wife six years ago. The last few years he’s watched others in his church find happiness through a matrimonial service in New York City, and he longs for what they have. When Lily arrives, she’s everything he’s ever wanted. She’s beautiful and charming and seems to love his daughter. He gladly hands his heart to her.But can a woman raised by an outlaw and a preacher who lost his mother to an outlaw’s bullet find happiness together? How could this unusual arrangement, born of deception, be within God’s will?