
The only issue is that he’ll have to overcome his hermit lifestyle and learn to schmooze investors in order to start his own sawmill. Walter realizes he wants nothing more than to break the chains of family and strike out on his own. When his mail-order bride is manipulated by his siblings. Walter Hunt followed his brothers across the country only to discover his own kin stole his woman and his land, now he plans to fight for what’s his. But when brother faces brother and truths unfold, does Francine trust the man who offers her safety and security, or the one who offers her a happily ever after?

Their marriage would be a ruse, but a beneficial one for them both.

McKinnie, his protection for her help in acquiring investors. A nearly impossible task without the help of the distracting, beautiful, thrifty Irish woman with a huge heart.Walter proposes a business arrangement to Ms. To recover his fortune, Edward must pull off the event of the year with little funds. Dreams sour when she discovers her betrothed is dead and his jilted, angry partner despises her for being Irish and the only woman available to marry. Alone, she makes the arduous journey to San Francisco to marry and start her own loving family. Cora McKinnie managed to live through the Civil War long enough to see her parents, brothers, and fiancé die and to send her six sisters away to wed.
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But when he discovers that his partner ran away with a prostitute to escape his gambling debts and his empire is crumbling, the last ace in his pocket is his mail-order bride - a woman of pure breeding, with a political family name, high class, and huge dowry. He’s spent the last twenty years hiding his heritage and building his fortune so he’d never go hungry again. Poverty that took his entire large family from him. Irish immigrant Edward O’Neal landed in America as a little boy with the promise of a better life but found prejudice and poverty.

A fake marriage for these enemies turned lovers will be tested and only trust can save them.
