The Bride Quilt — Pamela Quint Chambers

A RUNAWAY MAIL-ORDER BRIDE
A mail-order bride, Madeline Preston had fled from the horrid old man who'd paid her passage, only to lose her way in the Rocky Mountain wilderness. The isolated cabin she'd stumbled upon seemed deserted, until the owner -- a huge man clad in bearskin -- returned in a fury with his sister's five orphaned children in tow and a blizzard raging at his back. With spring months away, Maddie was suddenly a captive of the elements -- and of this turbulent, tender man who had ignited a fire in her heart.

A SOLITARY MOUNTAIN MAN
Sam Spencer valued only two things: his solitude and the bridal quilt made by the wife he still grieved. Now the clamor of children filled his cabin and a maddening violet-eyed stranger stood carelessly bundled in his precious quilt. As tempers flared, it would take a near-tragedy to wake Sam to the feelings stirring within him...feelings that spoke of a heart rekindled to love, of a humble hut that had become a home, of a future warm with promise woven from the torn threads of the bride quilt.