Texas Bride: A Bitter Creek Novel

HE MAY BE HER ONLY HOPE. SHE MAY BE HIS LAST CHANCE. Miranda Wentworth never imagined becoming a mail-order bride. Now marriage to a stranger is her only hope of finding a home where she and her two younger brothers can escape the brutality of the Chicago orphanage where they live. With any luck she can even start a family of her own once the three of them are settled at Jacob Creeds Texas ranch. But Miranda has one gigantic concern: Her husband-to-be knows nothing about the brothers shes bringing along. What if he calls off the deal when he discovers the trick shes played on him? Jake Creed is hanging on to his Texas ranch by his fingernails. His nemesis Alexander Blackthorne is determined to ruin him. Jake will never give up but hes in desperate trouble. His wife died six months ago in childbirth along with their stillborn son and his two-year-old daughter needs a mother. The advertisement Jake wrote never mentioned his daughteror the fact that he has no intention of consummating his marriage. Hes determined never to subject another wife to the burden of pregnancy. But Jake doesnt count on finding his bride so desirable. He doesnt count on aching with need when she joins him in bed. And he never suspected his bride would have plans of her own to seduce him. The passionate Westerns in Joan Johnstons Bitter Creek series can be enjoyed together or separately in any order: TEXAS BRIDE WYOMING BRIDE MONTANA BRIDE SINFUL SHAMELESS BLACKTHORNES BRIDE SULLIVANS PROMISE