A widower sheriff. A runaway schoolteacher who calls love a delusion. One Idaho pastor with empty pews and a plan.

Luke Kerry, Sheriff of Frontier Creek County and Head Deacon, Three Years a Widower. Luke rides the county line, eats at the jailhouse, and comes home to a bungalow he put up after the fire in Montana that took his wife. He wants to keep his town safe and his heart closed. The pastor who pinned on his star has decided a sheriff needs a family.

Prudence Chambers, Detroit Mayor’s Daughter and Schoolteacher, New Head of the Frontier Creek Mission School. Prue’s father, the mayor of Detroit, blocked every promotion she earned and then picked her a husband. She boarded a train west with two valises and no goodbye. She wants a schoolroom nobody can take from her and a life no man rules. The post comes with a condition: marry on arrival or ride the next train home.

Married the day after they meet, they agree on one thing: neither will love again. Then two ragged children land in the sheriff’s jail cell with no one to watch over them, and Prue takes them home. A marriage meant to satisfy a town has to hold a family together.

Luke offered a marriage in name only. Frontier Creek, two small children, and one umbrella had other ideas.

• clean closed-door western romance — no on-page intimacy
• mail-order bride schoolteacher — sent west by her pastor to teach, and to marry
• marriage of convenience — ordered by the town pastor the day after they meet
• widower sheriff hero — three years a widower, trained by the US Marshals
• instant family — two neglected children fostered straight out of a jail cell
• runaway heroine — a mayor’s daughter fleeing an arranged political marriage
• bickering couple — they argue about everything and the whole town smiles
• matchmaking pastor — four deacons to marry off, one at a time

Perfect for fans of mail-order bride marriage-of-convenience westerns, widower-sheriff heroes softened by children, and feisty schoolteacher heroines in a frontier town where the pastor plays matchmaker.

Begin the Frontier Creek Mail Order Brides series with Book 1 today.