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The Rancher's Mail-Order Bride

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Gwen Blue lands in trouble through no fault of her own. A scandal rattles her hometown of Beckham, Massachusetts, and she is confined to her room for two months. Engaged to a man she cannot stand, she longs to vanish. Her sisters break her out and suggest a trip to Texas to see an old school friend, and Gwen agrees at once.

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Walton Dalton has his future mapped out. He has trained for years in ranching and owns a sizable piece of land beside his brothers', and the three of them intend to build a ranch empire across Texas. To complete the plan he needs a wife, so he writes, without telling his brothers, to a matchmaker back in Beckham for three mail-order brides. From the first glimpse of Gwen, he is certain she is meant for him.

Will she accept his proposal? And if she does, can she shed her self-centred ways and become a good wife?

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