With nothing but grief waiting for her in Boston, Bea Jordan seizes her only chance at escape—an offer to marry a rancher she’s never met in the rugged town of Twin Forks, Arizona. Nathan Cross makes the terms of their arrangement clear. He needs a practical wife—someone to cook, keep house, and provide companionship for his ailing mother. Nothing more. It’s a marriage of convenience, plain and simple. But life on the Cross ranch is anything but simple... moreWith nothing but grief waiting for her in Boston, Bea Jordan seizes her only chance at escape—an offer to marry a rancher she’s never met in the rugged town of Twin Forks, Arizona. Nathan Cross makes the terms of their arrangement clear. He needs a practical wife—someone to cook, keep house, and provide companionship for his ailing mother. Nothing more. It’s a marriage of convenience, plain and simple. But life on the Cross ranch is anything but simple. Nathan is steady, honorable, and fiercely protective… yet shadows cling to him. The family never speaks of his brother, Jake. Whispers linger in town. And when threatening letters begin arriving at the ranch—letters signed by a man long presumed dead—Bea realizes she may have stepped into a past far more dangerous than her own. As fear closes in and her carefully guarded heart begins to soften, Bea must decide: will she cling to the safety of the bargain she made—or risk everything for a love shadowed by secrets? less
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