He wanted a virgin, but he got a woman with love in her
past....
Maggie Ramsay was alone, homeless, and widowed with three
children--the man she loved and her life at Glengarry
Castle destroyed in one murderous act. Her desperate
circumstances called for desperate measures: marriage to a
man she'd never met. As the bride of California timber
baron Adrian Mackinnon she would have a new life, a new
beginning ... away from the danger that still threatened
her young son.
Adrian Mackinnon wanted a perfect jewel to crown his
redwood empire; a beautiful, ornamental wife to give him
heirs. But Maggie Ramsay, with her Scot's logic, dry humor-
-and her past--was not what he had bargained for.
Undaunted, Maggie met the challenge of the primitive raw
forest and Adrian's own blustery ways head-on, winning the
hearts of every man at camp, and tackling a business no
ordinary woman would dare. She also found herself in love
with her husband. But the closer she got to Adrian's
aching heart, the harder he pushed her away. He was
determined to prove he needed no one--until greed and
passion threatened all he owned, and he was faced with a
choice no man should ever have to make....