Bodie Bride — Isabel Whitfield

Taken in Marriage

Spinster Margaret Warren had hoped to spend a lifetime "guiding" her unruly family. But when her saloon-keeper father tired of her teetotaling, bossy ways, well-meaning Margaret found herself bartered into wedlock with irrepressible miner John Banning. She gritted her teeth and promised to honor and obey--but love was another matter entirely!

John Banning knew his prickly wife would have to be won over, and he relished kindling the banked fires beneath Margaret's cool exterior. Yet when their explosive attraction sparked genuine panic m her, John feared that one wrong move would send his new bride running scared.. .