Gifts of Love — Theresa Michaels

Object: Matrimony

So ended Erin Dunmore's advertisement in the Walla Walla newspaper. Unless she found a husband quickly, Erin would face a lifetime of unwed motherhood. She prayed daily that her ad would be answered by a man who could fulfill her long-desired dreams of home, family and love.

Mace Dalton needed a wife, all right. But his secluded ranch was hard on women, and his rambunctious kids had driven away more housekeepers than he could count. A wife would be bound to him by law--his law. For Mace had enough of home and family, and love was something strictly from the past. . . .