The Gift of Love — Annie Boone

Chase is fed up waiting to meet the one. He's 32 now, and he desperately wants a family. He grew up in Springville, Nevada and has watched all of his friends and brothers meet nice women and settle down, but why can't that happen to him? He's handsome. He has some money. But any woman he's ever courted has ended up just not feeling right.Finally, Chase decides that if he can't find the love of his life, then maybe he can buy her. He contacts a mail order bride service and soon they send him his blushing bride to be. Her name is Mary. She's beautiful, smart, and easy-going. But there's just one problem, he can't get the fact that he's paying her to be his wife out of his head. He wants the real deal: Love. And as time goes on he feels sad that he's found the perfect woman, but under the wrong circumstances.Enter one Dolores O'Hanlon. She's a friend of Chase's and helped him out many moons ago. She hates to see him caught in this dilemma, so decides to give Mary and Chase a helpful nudge in the right direction.