The Heart's Frontier (35 page)

Famous bounty hunter Cade Kolby is forced off the trail to decide the fate of his late sister’s orphaned children. He’s not only returning to his hometown and nieces and nephews but also to a fiery redhead he loved and left 15 years ago.

The
last
person Zoe Bradshaw wants to see is Cade, but she does want to raise her best friend’s children as her own. So she tries to be polite, if cool, even as the attraction between them flares up again. Only this time, Zoe is determined not to let Cade get close to her heart.

But the townsfolk have other ideas. They want to see the little orphans with a mother
and
a father, and they form a plan that includes the possibility of a kiss…

A tender romance that shows how even the hard law of the West doesn’t stand a chance when God’s mercy, warm friendship, and true love come to reside in a lonely man’s heart.

“You can’t let one woman ruin your whole life, son,” the old foreman said. “You got to pray harder and ask that the good Lord will send the right woman. You got to produce an heir.”

Walker thought he had plenty of time to worry about marriage and kids. After Trudy’s betrayal, it would be a cold day in July before he gave his heart to another woman.

Abandoned by his fiancée just hours before their wedding, Walker McKay is determined to never let a woman near his heart again. Then a near-fatal accident makes producing an heir to the ranch a high priority. Beginning all over and courting someone new is out of the question, so he’ll have to find a wife another way.

Wealthy railroad heiress Sarah Livingston wants to be married, but her suitors are either fortune hunters or deemed unsuitable by her unreasonable father. When the opportunity comes to take the place of a mail-order bride, she believes she’s found the answer to her husband problem and grabs it with both hands.

Will Sarah’s deception and Walker’s wounded heart keep them from finding what they are both looking for? Or will they discover that they are, after all, truly meant for each other.

A tender romance that shows how even a wounded past does not stand a chance when God’s mercy, warm friendship, and true love come to reside in a lonely man’s heart.

HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS

EUGENE, OREGON