From Darkness to Glory — J.R. Biery

FROM DARKNESS TO GLORY
A factory girl is desperate to protect her family. She has to accept offers from terrible men or marry a stranger. After marrying her Montana man, she learns he's a gun slinger.

Lynne McKinney has endured hardship, working three years in a Boston factory to help the family after her father died. But when fever sweeps through the tenements, it claims her mother and threatens the lives of her young sister and brothers. She faces the choice of trading her body for money or watching them die. Instead, she chooses to control her destiny and answers an ad to marry a rancher in Montana if he will send the money she needs to hospitalize the children.

Phillip Gant has lived by the gun. Ready to put his demons behind him, he has land and a house, but is unwilling to settle for the kind of woman who wants to marry a killer. Desperate, he orders a mail order bride, even sending extra money to ensure she arrives in ten days.

He is unprepared for his enchanting young bride or the passionate protectiveness he feels toward her. He struggles to shield her from danger in the harsh Indian territory, fighting off desperate men, marauding Indians, and shadowy figures from their past. Together they must overcome their dark ghosts in order to change their contracted marriage into one of love.