Beloved Wife — Lynda Trent

Not What He'd Bargained For

She was a surprise package, this mail-order bride. Feisty, practical, caring, even pretty . . . and Clay Morgan caught himself wishing he could be a real husband to her. But that would never be, for his heart was married to a memory .. . .

What Amity Becker needed was an escape. A safe haven from the scandal that haunted her. And someone who cared about her. What she got was a brooding Texas widower--with five daughters! A man whose heart was under lock and key. How could she convince Clay that she could be more than a wife in name only?