The Marine’s E-Mail Order Bride
by Cora Seton
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BLURB:
If Gunnery Sergeant Zane Hall wants to save his family’s
ranch, he’ll need to fix up the buildings, stock the spread with cattle—and
find a wife. The first two are easy with the help of his brothers, but getting
hitched is proving more difficult. When he meets mountaineer Kenna North
through an online ad, she seems like the perfect fit—at least in her e-mails.
She wants the same thing he does: a temporary marriage to secure an inheritance.
But when Zane meets Kenna, she’s nothing like he expects, and Zane finds
himself changing his priorities, fast.
If Storm Willow wants to save her family’s seaside cottage,
she’ll have to keep her boss happy—which means taking Kenna’s place and marrying
Zane when Kenna is detained out of the country. As long as Storm acts her part, no one will know that she’s
an imposter. But when she falls for the handsome Marine, Storm begins to wonder
if holding onto the cottage is worth giving up on love.
Can a fake marriage lead to real happiness? Or is disaster
just a heartbeat away?
EXCERPT
“Kenna’s paying me thirty
grand.” She waited a beat. Just like she’d thought, the sum silenced her mother.
“For pretending to be her for six weeks?”
“That’s right. She’ll get her inheritance, Zane will get his. They’ll
divorce in April with no one the wiser.”
She could almost see the cogs turn in her mother’s brain. “I guess if no
one is being hurt by the deception…”
“No one’s going to get hurt.” Even as she said it she knew it for the
lie it was. She was going to get hurt—bad. When the time came to split from
Zane, she didn’t know what she’d do.
“Well… do what you think is best.”
Storm rolled her eyes at her mother’s attempt to remove herself from any
blame. “I will.” She couldn’t keep the edge from her voice. She was doing this
to save Cheyenne’s house, after all. Her mother could have sold it at any time
and they’d all be far better off than they were right now. Zane wouldn’t think
she was Kenna, for one thing.
Of course she’d never have met him, either.
“Keep me posted. And Storm—”
“Yes?”
“Don’t fall for this man, whoever he is. Remember it’s a fake, and
remember you don’t belong in Montana. We need you back home with us when this
is all over.”
“Got it, Mom. ‘Bye.” She hung up, unable to stay on the line any longer.
She didn’t want to think about leaving Chance Creek. In six short weeks this
would all be over and she’d take a plane back to California, leaving Zane
behind forever. Of course Cheyenne wanted her to come home. She was a built in
baby-sitter, wage-earner and housekeeper all in one. What about what she
wanted, though? When would she ever stop being Cheyenne’s daughter or Kenna’s
assistant and start her life as an independent woman? A woman free to marry a
man like Zane?
She thought of the balance remaining on the cottage’s mortgage.
Maybe in another twenty years.
AUTHOR Bio and
Links:
Cora Seton loves cowboys, country life, gardening, bike-riding, and
lazing around with a good book. Mother of four, wife to a computer
programmer/eco-farmer, she ditched her California lifestyle nine years ago and
moved to a remote logging town in northwestern British Columbia.
Like the characters in her novels, Cora enjoys old-fashioned pursuits
and modern technology, spending mornings transforming a neglected one-acre lot
into a paradise of orchards, berry bushes and market gardens, and afternoons
writing the latest Chance Creek romance novel. Visit www.coraseton.com to read
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The more I read about this book, the more I know I have to read it for myself.
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I liked the blurb. Sounds great.
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