The rancher and the librarian...

He was wide-open spaces, solitude and strength - the kind of man to set women's hearts aflutter.

She was a small-town girl who never dreamed she'd end up marrying a rancher.

But if Catrina thought that Zade Mackensie's marriage proposal was the answer to those dreams, she was mistaken. Oh, Zade wanted to marry her, all right. He made no secret of the fact that a wife would make the ideal companion on his Montana Ranch. But he didn't offer her love. Catrina loved Zade enough to take a chance on marrying him. Now all she had to do was melt his resistance to romance.