But he's handsome, lovingly possessive, and, she discovers, a perfect embodiment of her romanticized notion of a mountain man. He agrees to stay on his side of the bed and quietly divorce her on the other side of the Atlantic. It's the 19th century's forerunner to the green-card marriage: Taylor pays him to marry her, which allows her to take custody of her orphaned nieces and keep her assets intact. The only way that Taylor can evade those male-favoring inheritance laws is by making a deal with an American, Merritt's bastard brother no less, Civil War veteran and Montana rancher Lucas Ross. Life is further complicated by Uncle Malcolm, who has set his sights on Taylor's inheritance as well as her flesh. Naãve, prim, and repressed, Englishwoman Taylor Baker is the princess every romance reader longs to be-except that her prince, William Merritt, elopes with her mean-spirited cousin Jane. Garwood's second foray into hardcover (after Saving Grace, 1993) is politically correct but gripping escapism of the tallest order.
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