Love's Possession

Nothing in her genteel, impoverished life could have prepared her for this. Orphaned, penniless, and growing more desperate by the minute, Mary Stiers found herself in the not-quite-wild West, bound to marry the author of the mail-order-bride ad to which she'd responded. Whatever fantasies Mary had had about Kit Jackson - or about any man, for that matter - were shattered by his deeply annoying - and annoyingly attractive - demeanor. While she tried to help him eek out a living on his barely sustainable ranch, she found herself spending at least as much time worrying about ending up either held devastatingly close by those muscular arms of his, or, to her complete horror, over his lap, getting the spanking of a lifetime.