Ethan Cruz should be
mending fences on his Montana ranch, but instead he’s driving to the Chance
Creek, Montana, airport – to pick up the bride he didn’t know he had. This
latest salvo in his ongoing practical joke battle with his best friend, Rob
Matheson, has gone too far, and Ethan plans to send his “bride” right back home,
then get busy plotting his revenge. One look at Autumn Leeds changes his mind,
however. Perhaps he needs a bride, after all. A breathtakingly beautiful city
bride.
Autumn Leeds needs a
story – fast – or she’s going to lose her lucrative contract with CityPretty
Magazine, so when she sees the crazy video plea for a modern mail-order bride
for a cowboy, it sounds like the story of the century. Making a video of her
own, she casts herself as the perfect mail-order bride for a rancher, but when
she finally reaches Montana, she’s surprised to find Ethan’s the perfect cowboy
husband-to-be. Against her better judgment, her plan to keep her handsome groom
at arm’s length disintegrates into a night of passion spent in his
arms.
Ethan knows he can’t
keep playing this game – he has to come clean with Autumn and tell her the
truth; about the practical joke and about the state of his ranch. He’s about to
lose it all because of the debts his mother racked up before his parents’
deaths. Now his sister, Claire, wants to sell the ranch and collect what little
money they can. He’ll be out of a home and a job, and in no shape to support the
bride he desperately wants to marry, after all.
Autumn’s in bigger
trouble than ever. Not only has she fallen in love with the subject of her
expose – she might be carrying his child. If she doesn’t write this article and
secure her job for another year, she’ll lose everything – her career, her
apartment, and more importantly, her family’s approval. The only alternative is
to stay and marry Ethan. But how can she trust a man she’s just met when she
knows too well that men always let you down?
Can a love based on
lies last?
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She glanced up at
Ethan to find him glancing down, and the warm feeling curved around her insides
again. Surely New York men couldn’t be shorter than this crew, or any less
manly, but she couldn’t remember the last time she’d been around so much blatant
testosterone. She must be ovulating. Why else would she react like this to a
perfect stranger?
Ethan touched her arm.
“This way.” She followed him down the hall, the others falling into place behind
them like a cowboy entourage. She stifled a sudden laugh at the absurdity of it
all, slipped her hand into her purse and grabbed her digital camera, capturing
the scene with a few clicks. Had this man – this…cowboy – sat down and planned
out the video he’d made? She tried to picture Ethan bending over a desk and
carefully writing out “Sweet. Good cook. Ready for children.”
She blew out a breath
and wondered if she was the only one stifling in this sudden heat. Ready for
children? Hardly. Still…if she was going to make babies with
anyone…
Shaking her head to
dispel that dangerous image, she found herself at the airport’s single baggage
carousel. It was just shuddering to life and within moments she pointed out
first one, then another sleek, black suitcase. Ethan took them both, began to
move toward the door and then faltered to a stop. He avoided her gaze, focusing
on something far beyond her shoulder. “It’s just…I wasn’t….”
Oh God, Autumn
thought, a sudden chill racing down her spine. Her stomach lurched and she
raised a hand as if to ward off his words. She hadn’t even considered
this.
He’d taken one look
and decided to send her back.
Cora Seton loves
cowboys, country life, gardening, bike-riding, and lazing around with a good
book. Mother of four, wife to a computer programmer/eco-farmer, she ditched her
California lifestyle eight years ago and moved to a remote logging town in
northwestern British Columbia.
Like the characters in
her novels, Cora enjoys old-fashioned pursuits and modern technology, spending
mornings transforming a neglected one-acre lot into a paradise of orchards,
berry bushes and market gardens, and afternoons writing the latest Chance Creek
romance novel on her iPad mini. Visit www.coraseton.com to read about new
releases, locate your favorite characters on the Chance Creek map, and learn
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