Rancher Wants a Wife

Rancher Wants a Wife
Kate Bridges

A marriage to save them both…Among the responses Cassandra Hamilton receives to her advertizement as a mail-order bride, one stands out–Jack McColton's. The last time she saw him, she was a carefree girl, but tragedy has made her a cautious woman.Jack is mesmerized by his new bride–Cassandra might bear the scars of recent events, but she's even more beautiful than he remembers. They both have pasts that are hard to forget, but under the cloak of night, can their passion banish the shadows forever?Mail-Order WeddingsFrom blushing bride to rancher's wife!

‘Welcome to my valley.’

There went her nerves again. Cassandra couldn’t get enough of looking at the new Jack. Goodness. Wasn’t he handsome? Perhaps he knew it. Perhaps this new confidence she sensed in him came from being aware of how he was perceived by the women around him. And those women … they had such fine features and beautiful skin.

It hurt to remember that she’d once looked like that. That she’d once turned heads and garnered male attention.

She composed herself and tried to remain positive. Jack hadn’t asked anyone else to marry him; he had asked her. So Cassandra focused on what the future with him might bring, and gave him a cheerful nod.

‘Nice to be here finally.’

‘Yes, finally,’ he said, as if he were thinking about something more.

She swooped down to inhale the perfume of the roses, hoping the colour heating up her cheeks didn’t show.

Finally, after all these years, Jack McColton would be taking her virginity.

Kate Bridges invites you to her

MAIL-ORDER WEDDINGS

From blushing bride to rancher’s wife!

The Great Fire of Chicago might have changed

best friends Cassandra Hamilton’s and Natasha O’Sullivan’s lives for ever, but they’re determined to carve a new future for themselves as mail-order brides in the West.

Then along come their Stetson-wearing, gun-slinging, breathtaking new husbands—it seems Cassandra and Natasha have got a whole lot more than they signed up for!

Read Cassandra’s story in:

RANCHER WANTS A WIFE

And look out for Natasha’s story

WELCOME TO WYOMING

Coming April 2014

Rancher Wants a Wife

Kate Bridges

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

Award-winning and multi-published author KATE BRIDGES was raised in rural Canada, and her stories reflect her love for wide-open spaces, country sunshine and the Rocky Mountains. She loves writing adventurous tales of the men and women who tamed the West. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Kate worked as a paediatric intensive care nurse. She often includes compelling medical situations in her novels. Later in her education she studied architecture, and worked as a researcher on a television design programme. She has taken postgraduate studies in comedy screenwriting, and in her spare time writes screenplays. Kate’s novels have been translated into nine languages, studied in over a dozen colleges on their commercial fiction courses, and are sold worldwide. She lives in the beautiful cosmopolitan city of Toronto with her family. To find out more about Kate’s books and to sign up for her free online newsletter please visit www.katebridges.com

Previous novels by the author:

THE DOCTOR’S HOMECOMING

THE SURGEON

THE ENGAGEMENT

THE PROPOSITION

THE CHRISTMAS GIFTS THE BACHELOR

THE COMMANDER

KLONDIKE DOCTOR

SHOTGUN VOWS

KLONDIKE WEDDING

KLONDIKE FEVER

WANTED IN ALASKA

HER ALASKAN GROOM

ALASKAN RENEGADE

Did you know that some of these novels are also available as eBooks? Visit www.millsandboon.co.uk

This book is dedicated to my family for their loving support and for always coming through with their sense of humour.

In writing this story I owe many thanks to my fabulous editor, Carly Byrne, for her talented editorial input and advice. I’d also like to thank Linda Fildew for her support, and the entire team in the UK offices for their friendliness when I came to visit and their dedication behind the scenes.

I would like to thank my marvellous agent, Erica Spellman Silverman, for her enthusiasm and guidance, and the whole team at the Trident Media Group.

It’s a great pleasure to work with all of you.

Contents

Chapter One (#uf08c2bf1-9416-5041-9437-a3efbb49ef7f)

Chapter Two (#u84f7f6cc-c947-534a-ad83-d383355c28ad)

Chapter Three (#ud46468a8-cae7-5504-8041-abab102a6796)

Chapter Four (#u7b58448d-0d49-50cb-ae47-00f6e0e81dd1)

Chapter Five (#u1b7fb197-4dc3-5094-8aa2-9f52849b21fd)