Author Self-Published
February 2010
On Sale: January 27, 2010
352 pages ISBN: 0451407377 EAN: 9780451407375 Kindle: B0036B958S e-Book (reprint) Add to Wish List
With blistering humiliation, Melissa Logan stood by in
mute horror as her husband sold her to pay a debt. She’d
already realized that marrying Coy Logan to escape her
miserable life with a drunken father and two lazy brothers
had been a ghastly mistake. Coy dragged her to Dawson City
to join the Yukon gold rush. Now worse off than ever, she
was penniless with a new baby and “belonged” to Dylan
Harper, a man said to have a heart of stone and a meat
cleaver under his store counter that he wielded without
hesitation. Melissa never felt so desperate in her life.
Dylan Harper wanted his $1,200, not a wife. But afraid if
he didn’t accept Logan’s offer, someone else would, Dylan
couldn’t bear the idea of this woman with a bruised face
suffering an even worse fate. To him, this marriage,
conducted in a barroom with a dying Louisiana lawyer
officiating, was nothing more than a business arrangement.
Melissa would cook and clean for him, but not share his
bed. But he didn’t dream this gentle female would grip his
heart so fiercely. Yet, with all the hurt between them,
would either be willing to take the first steps to trust
again, to touch, to fall in love—