The Mountain Man’s Clever Bride: A Mountain Man Sanctuary Story

He ordered peace and quiet. She’s neither.

Marshall signed up for a mail order bride like most men in Crescent Ridge. What was he thinking? Too many drinks down at Gilroy’s Bar and he did the one thing he swore he would never do again. Propose to a woman. He’s been burned before and he’s not looking for another scar to add to his collection. He still has nightmares about the IED that left him with only one leg. It was too much for his first fiancée, he knows the woman flying in to marry him won’t be able to handle it either.
The delicate scientist that steps off the plane doesn’t stare at his face or the titanium prosthetic leg that he didn’t bother covering with his jeans. She beams a bright and sunny smile that has him swallowing his prepared rejection speech.

She’s going to bring him out of the darkness and into the light whether he cooperates or not.

Tabitha grew up sheltered, graduating college before her eighteenth birthday. She was never able to connect with her peers and relating to anyone her own age was impossible. At twenty-six she’s built a career in science that she’s proud of, but it doesn’t fill the hole left by loneliness like it used to. Signing up to be a mail order bride is the most efficient way to get a husband. One who has already seen her list of deal breakers and her flaws. Someone who knows exactly what he’s signing up for by marrying her. She doesn’t expect the former Army Ranger and his rustic cabin to bring her joy or to have her questioning her priorities.

He’s going to teach her more about biology than any class she’s taken, and together they’ll discover that love can’t be measured.