num_pages: 260
description: Ethan Cruz should be mending fences on his Montana ranch but instead hes driving to the Chance Creek Montana airport  to pick up the bride he didnt know he had. This latest salvo in his ongoing practical joke battle with his best friend Rob Matheson has gone too far and Ethan plans to send his bride right back home then get busy plotting his revenge. One look at Autumn Leeds changes his mind however. Perhaps he needs a bride after all. A breathtakingly beautiful city bride. Autumn Leeds needs a story  fast  or shes going to lose her lucrative contract with CityPretty Magazine so when she sees the crazy video plea for a modern mail-order bride for a cowboy it sounds like the story of the century. Making a video of her own she casts herself as the perfect mail-order bride for a rancher but when she finally reaches Montana shes surprised to find Ethans the perfect cowboy husband-to-be. Against her better judgment her plan to keep her handsome groom at arms length disintegrates into a night of passion spent in his arms.Ethan knows he cant keep playing this game  he has to come clean with Autumn and tell her the truth; about the practical joke and about the state of his ranch. Hes about to lose it all because of the debts his mother racked up before his parents deaths. Now his sister Claire wants to sell the ranch and collect what little money they can. Hell be out of a home and a job and in no shape to support the bride he desperately wants to marry after all. Autumns in bigger trouble than ever. Not only has she fallen in love with the subject of her expose  she might be carrying his child. If she doesnt write this article and secure her contract for another year shell lose everything  her career her apartment and more importantly her familys approval. The only alternative is to stay and marry Ethan. But how can she trust a man shes just met when she knows too well that men always let you down? Can a love based on lies last?
language: English
title: The Cowboy's E-Mail Order Bride
publisher: One Acre Press