From genteel Boston to the wilds of Montana, she is searching for a safe haven for her family and finds unexpected love. Having lost her beloved husband, a whaling captain, to a watery grave, Molly Gallagher refuses to risk more heartbreak. Determined to keep her headstrong son from following in his father s footsteps, she agrees to become the mail-order bride of a Montana country doctor. She tells her new husband that she can never give her love to another man; what she doesn t tell him is that she has a young daughter and a rebellious teenage son. Molly s ruse might have worked, but Seth Kendrick has secrets of his own: a willful daughter determined to end the marriage before it even begins and a double life keeping his neighbors safe from outlaws. In an untamed land of vigilante justice, Molly has no choice but to trust this gray-eyed stranger whose stubbornness matches her own, whose kisses unleash flash floods of desire and who may be the one man in a million who could win her fiery, faithful heart. When the gorgeous blonde sashayed into Oakville, Ethan Hawk was a goner--until she told him her name: Patch Kendrick. The tomboy tease he remembered from Fort Benton, Montana, was now a luscious lady hunting for her man: him ! Nothing, not even his outlaw past, would keep Patch off his trail. She knew that Ethan Hawk was the man for her--even when he galloped out of her childhood with a price on his head and nary a backward glance. Now that she's found him again, she's armed and ready for love. But before Ethan could yield his heart, he had to clear his name. So Patch set out to find the villain who framed him--and risked ambushing her lifelong dream.