Springwater (Springwater Seasons)

With this enchanting tale Linda Lael Miller begins a delightful series centered around a bustling Montana stagecoach stop. For one young widow Springwater Station is the place where dreams are waiting to come true—and love is about to bloom. . Evangeline Keating came west because she had to: after her husband’s passing she needed to build a new life for her young daughter and marrying a stranger from Montana Territory was her best chance. After a difficult winter journey she arrives at an isolated outpost called Springwater Station. But the handsome man who’s come for her is not her husband-to-be and Evangeline soon finds herself thrust into a most inconvenient—and highly improper—arrangement. Scully Wainwright never intended to be left alone with his ranching partner’s fiancée. But his partner’s not due back until spring and he can’t leave a defenseless woman and her child unguarded—not with wolves and Indians threatening. Biding his time with the lovely Evangeline begins to feel dangerously close to setting up a real home. But as a reckless passion sparks between them Scully and Evangeline discover a destiny—and a passion—as boundless as the open frontier.