Never love a lawman
By: Jo Goodman
Series: Reidsville -- #1
Publisher: Zebra Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
ISBN-13: 9781615232666
Subjects: Man-woman relationships; Inheritance and succession; Sheriffs; Mineral industries; Small cities; Fiction
Description: "Rachel Bailey may seem like just a beautiful newcomer to most of Reidsville, Colorado, but Sheriff Wyatt Cooper knows she's much more. Through a twist of fate, Rachel is the inheritor of a very valuable commodity: control of the railway that keeps the isolated mining town connected to the world. That is, she will be, if she agrees to the surprising stipulation in her benefactor's will--that she marry Wyatt. Rachel has no choice: refusing the marriage could put all of Reidsville in the hands of an outsider--and not just any outsider, but the cruel tyrant she has come here to escape. Yet living with Wyatt will be her greatest challenge. For he has a tempting way about him that makes Rachel forget theirs is a marriage in name only--until her frightening past shows up to remind them exactly how much they have at stake ..."--Jacket.