Will his protection be enough to save her? Zoey Ebron’s stepfather wants her to marry a convicted felon when he is released from prison. She has secretly been writing to a lonely widower who needs a mother for his young daughter. After making a daring escape from a locked hotel room, Zoey travels to meet her would-be groom, only to discover he is dead. Sheriff Oliver Gentry, has sole care of his orphaned niece and realizes he needs a woman’s help. In desperation he asks Zoey, his dead brother’s mail order bride, to marry him. Will she accept his reluctant offer?