Learning to Trust Again — Susannah Calloway

Fearful and frightened, Lacey Harper must learn to save herself. When her father plans to marry her off to enrich himself, she answers an advert for a Mail Order Bride. She boards a train to Colorado Territory to marry a man named Neil Thompson.But Neil doesn't want or need a wife. He'd buried his beloved Maggie four years earlier and cannot move on from her death. His daughter, Darcy, now six, needs the mother Neil refuses to provide.Lacey arrives in Miner's Gulch, Colorado, and learns that Neil's family had asked for a Mail Order Bride for him; Neil has no knowledge of the arrangement. Lacey agrees to stay on only until she finds a new husband. Except Lacey is attracted to Neil, and Neil to Lacey.But Neil declares he'll never marry again. Lacey writes the Mail Order Bride Agency to find a man who truly wants her, but Darcy's sudden illness prevents Lacey from leaving.Neil realizes he's fallen for Lacey, but has he lost her? When Lacey's father arrives to take her home to marry another, Neil fights for her. Then a mysterious event binds Lacey and Neil together for all time.Enjoy this romantic tale of love and adventure in the Wild West.