The most tomboyish of all the Garrison girls, Laurel dreaded the thought of marriage especially to a tenderfoot like Lord Collier Pembroke! If she loved anything, it was the Big Horn Mountains, the beauty of the foothills; if there was anything she desired, it was her own ranch with plenty of cattle. From the Land Office, she got just that. But as her father didn't trust her to survive Wyoming's treacherous winter on her own, a sham marriage to Pembroke was the sole solution. It was only when the experience proved Lord Collier more of a man than she'd thought and herself more of a woman that she began to silently thank her father. Then Laurel realized that her first step to joy had been in Proving Herself.
