Had she journeyed to the ends of the earth... As her ship rose above the waves, Alana Lansbury's spirits fell. Promised in marriage upon her return home, she had come to this remote outpost in the Shetland Islands as an unpaid missionary. Some said the petite nurse wouldn't last the year; some said she wouldn't even stay the summer. And when Alana confronted a wild-eyed, drunken Brion McClerry on her very first day, she nearly left then and there. To find a love that was heaven sent? Sheep raiser Brion McClerry had enough troubles for ten men—starting with caring for his brother's five children. Now a bossy British nurse was trying to tell him how to rear his family, getting under his skin, and stealing his heart. Brion was too proud to admit he needed a woman, and besides, Alana was promised to another. But even as he struggled against both nature's fury and his own stormy emotions, he knew he'd give up everything to keep her in his arms, in his bed...and forever in his life.