The Cattle Baron's Wife — Colleen Coble

After her parents died, Lucy Marsh took responsibility for her young sister and brother. She struggles to support them and tries to make a home for them. But somehow, she never makes ends meet.

Just when their lives seem hopeless, a man named Luther Stanton makes Lucy an astounding offer. He asks her to become his son's wife and proves his legal right to have the marriage performed by proxy. Full of misgivings, Lucy agrees to the marriage and leaves Boston for her new home in Wichita, Texas.

But Caleb Stanton doesn't want a wife. And he particularly doesn't want a cultured blond slip of a wife from the East. He needs someone who can rope cattle and ride a horse, someone who can work at his side to help him build a cattle empire. Someone like his neighbor Margaret.

Will Lucy ever be able to measure up to Margaret's abilities? Or maybe, just maybe, could Caleb learn to love her for herself?