RANCHER SEEKING WIFE. For Kate Whittington, the modest
words of a newspaper ad are the answer to her desperate
prayers. Daughter of a dockside harlot and raised in a
bleak orphanage, she has no prospects in the unforgiving
Maine village of her birth. Correspondence from the lonely
Texas widower looking for a mail-order bride sparks
tempting dreams of a house, a family, and a future in a
land filled with possibilities.
Kate arrives at the magnificent Lone Star Ranch eager to
meet her new husband. Instead she is greeted by the news
that Reed Benton has been wounded during a raid on a
Comanche village and has returned with a prisoner--a wild-
looking young boy who may be his long lost son. Even more
shattering, however, is the fact that Reed has never heard
of Kate, never wrote the searing letters that charmed her
heart.
Reed Benton doesn't want a wife. But he does need someone
to look after the boy--a bitter reminder of a past ravaged
by lies and betrayal. It will take a miracle to heal these
two damaged souls . . . or the faith of one woman with
nothing left to lose but her heart.
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