num_pages: 178
description: Adele Jensen gave her heart to the wrong man. After ten years as mistress to a power-hungry and vengeful man she realizes her mistake and leaves New York behind to start a new life in Montana as a Mail Order Bride. Afraid her new husband won't approve of her past she creates a new identity for herself and hopes with all her heart that her new husband will be the loving husband and father she's always dreamed of.Edward Wharton doesn't trust women. In fact the only female he wants to take care of is his seven year old daughter whose mother left him for a gambler and a fifth of whiskey and life in the saloon. When a stagecoach accident took her life he couldn't find it in his heart to mourn her death nor to forgive her treachery. But his little girl needs a mother and Edward is tired of battling life alone. A mail order bride seems to be the perfect solution to his dilemma he needs a woman in his life but not in his bed. Definitely not in his heart.Richard Douglas keeps what's his and as far as he's concerned that includes his runaway mistress Adele. She defied him. Ran from him. Made demands she had no right to make. And he will have her back no matter the cost.Angel Creek Montana is a wild frontier where only the strong survive. Richard's arrival will test Edward's resolve not to love again. Will Adele find the courage to conquer her past and Edward's untamed heart?
language: English
title: Adele
publisher: None