The Substitute Wife

HARRISON . . .Once his fortune in silver mining is secured Harrison Carter finally sends back home for his fiancée. Its been four years since hes seen Jenny.But its Retta Pearce Jennys sister who arrives by stagecoach with young daughter Adeline in tow. When this lovely soiled dove brings devastating news and a written plea from Jenny to marry and care for Retta and little Addie whats a good man to do?RETTA . . .Fulfilling her dying sisters request Retta travels across dangerous territory to marry a man she barely remembers. But the hard miner who meets her at the stagecoach surely isnt the same one her sister claimed was kind and honorable a gentleman wholl embrace her and her daughter as if they were his own. Has she made a mistake shell pay for the rest of her life?TWO PEOPLE . . .Thrown together in shared sorrow Harrison and Retta struggle to forge a life in the brand-new state of late-nineteenth-century Colorado.