title: The Wishing Tree
author: Snodgrass, Catherine
description: Jake Tanner goes to collect on a debt and comes back with a bride he doesn't want and can't resist. Grace Marshall is determined to honor her marriage vows, but one step forward with Jake always leads to two steps back. When Jake's past shows up on the doorstep in the form of a wife he thought was dead, Grace has had enough. Now Jake has to figure out how to keep the wife he wants and shed himself of the wife he doesn't want. And one of those wives wants him dead.
  Genres: Romance / Historical Romance
  Winner--ERA Award for Best Historical Romance!
  3rd Place-- Laurel Wreath Award!
  EPPIE Award Finalist!