Mary (Merry Widows)
Rafe McCade is finally bringing his daughter Beth home.  After five long years of being separated from Beth because his wife didn't want a life with him, Rafe is a very wealthy man ready to start fresh with a daughter he hardly knows.  But there are men who want him dead and won't necessarily spare his daughter to get what they want.  When Beth is injured, Rafe is forced to take her to the nearest town, a little place called Hillsboro where the town doctor is drunk and the only people who can help him are the "merry widows."  Expecting to find a brothel, Rafe finds three widowed women instead.  And one of those women will touch him the way no woman ever has. Mary Inlow has been a widow for a year, but she doesn't grieve for her husband.  Her ten-year marriage started as a dream and became a nightmare.   Now she is happy in her new home, sharing it with her cousin Sarah and their friend Catherine.  Then Rafe arrives with Beth and Mary's heart cries out for what she can never have - a child of her own.  Though she opens her arms and her heart to Beth, she cannot let herself trust Rafe or the feelings she has for him.  But while she is healing his daughter, he heals her soul.   Readers have come to expect wonderful romances from Theresa Michaels, and she does not disappoint.  Mary is the first book in the Merry Widows Trilogy and it promises to be as memorable as the Kincaid Trilogy.  Set in New Mexico, this is Americana at its very best.  I will be looking forward to Sarah and Catherine's stories!Nobody does it better than Theresa Michaels!  She is an incredible storyteller who writes from the heart! Mary is pure magic! Once in awhile an author comes along that touches your heart over and over again--  Theresa Michaels is that author! A love story about what it means to be a family.  This is a special book! Kristina Wright  --Copyright © 1994-97 Literary Times, Inc.  All rights reserved--FromLiterary Times