The Bride Lottery

The Bride Lottery
Tatiana March

Bidding on his convenient bride!There’s no room in James Fast Elk Blackburn’s dangerous life for a wife, but the gentle beauty on offer in the town’s bridal auction would make the perfect carer for his orphaned niece.Miranda Fairfax is trying to reach her sister in Arizona. Being arrested, then forcibly wed to a bounty hunter, is not part of her plan! Yet Jamie’s rough exterior conceals a compassionate and sensual man, and Miranda soon wishes their marriage could be for real…

Bidding on his convenient bride!

There’s no room in James Fast Elk Blackburn’s dangerous life for a wife, but the gentle beauty on offer in the town’s bridal auction would make the perfect caregiver for his orphaned niece.

Miranda Fairfax is trying to reach her sister in Arizona. Being arrested then forcibly wed to a bounty hunter is not part of her plan! Yet Jamie’s rough exterior conceals a compassionate, sensual man, and Miranda soon wishes their marriage could be for real...

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Three sisters find rugged husbands

in the wild Wild West

Beautiful heiresses Charlotte, Miranda and Annabel Fairfax have only ever known a life of luxury in Boston. Now orphaned and in danger, they are forced to flee, penniless and alone, into the lawless West. There they discover that people will risk all for gold and land—but when the sisters make three very different marriages to three enigmatic men they will find the most precious treasure of all!

Read Charlotte and Thomas’s story in

His Mail-Order Bride

Already available

Miranda and James’s story in

The Bride Lottery

Available now

and

Annabel and Clay’s story

coming soon!

Author Note (#u6263ff93-6fa5-55f7-bcef-2e846db924ff)

When I wrote His Mail-Order Bride—the story of Charlotte Fairfax, who assumes another woman’s identity and ends up married to an Arizona Territory homesteader—I did not intend to write three books. However, it seemed natural to follow with the stories of Charlotte’s sisters, Miranda and Annabel, and it became a trilogy: The Fairfax Brides.

I wanted my heroines to have distinct personalities, and I wanted to write about three different heroes, yet there are common elements throughout the books. All three sisters have to flee from their embittered cousin Gareth, who seeks to control the Fairfax fortune. All three heroes are loners, but each in his own way each of them longs for a woman to love—someone to call his own, someone who will make him complete.

The Bride Lottery is the story of the middle sister, Miranda, and Jamie Blackburn, a part-Cheyenne bounty hunter. Brave and bold, Miranda thirsts for adventure and meets new challenges head-on. Jamie has lost everyone he has ever loved, and lives in a dark world of death and danger. When fate throws them together Jamie finds a chance for redemption in Miranda, but the violence of his profession stands in their way.

I hope you’ll enjoy reading about Miranda and Jamie.

Annabel’s story will complete the trilogy. The youngest, clever but emotionally volatile, Annabel has some growing up to do before she can stand up to her older sisters and find her place in the world.

The Bride Lottery

Tatiana March

www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)

Before becoming a novelist, TATIANA MARCH tried out various occupations—including being an accountant. Now she loves writing Western historical romance. In the course of her research Tatiana has been detained by the US border guards, had a skirmish with the Mexican army, and stumbled upon a rattlesnake. This has not diminished her determination to create authentic settings for her stories.

Books by Tatiana March

Mills & Boon Historical Romance

The Fairfax Brides

His Mail-Order Bride

The Bride Lottery

Mills & Boon Historical Undone! eBooks

The Virgin’s Debt

Submit to the Warrior

Surrender to the Knight

The Drifter’s Bride

Visit the Author Profile page at www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)

Contents

Cover (#u25ff6b92-10e3-5c1f-929b-36106aadf1a4)

Back Cover Text (#uc3e780d2-809c-5452-8c4e-0c6edcb9a407)

The Fairfax Brides (#udc73b9dc-345d-5a84-9403-aa2547949dc4)

Author Note (#u670402c5-f1b3-5fef-aea0-390ddb651884)

Title Page (#u9caf12c7-a7f3-5af0-b777-16ddb5cbb7f9)

About the Author (#u9ba64f8c-a513-56a6-930e-7e0627554ba6)

Chapter One (#u513fb670-893c-56e6-baae-e4f609d0a4a2)

Chapter Two (#u105ea2de-f5b4-52d9-9322-8c82368adeb3)

Chapter Three (#u6771c0a0-b5f3-588f-919f-6c395a84cbe2)

Chapter Four (#uc661e928-08f4-5e56-a1a7-d6ec46c0a2c2)