He needs her, he desires her, but will he ever say the words she longs to hear? Lucy O’Malley is content with her life in Morgan’s Crossing. She’s established a successful baking business and more miners line up every week to buy her pies and sourdough bread. Mining engineer Nathaniel Carrington is one of her best customers, and she’s delighted often lingers at her shop several times each week to enjoy a cup of coffee and some conversation. But Lucy knows the handsome educated man could never be interested in courting a woman like her, with the rough manners that came from living in frontier towns and on mining claims all her life. Nathaniel Carrington has a problem. Actually—three of them. His children have been living in Colorado Territory with his mother-in-law, but she’s ill and he’s forced to bring the children to Montana to live with him. He needs someone to care for them, and Lucille O’Malley seems the best candidate. She’s good-hearted, hardworking, and most importantly, she’s available. Lucy accepts a proposal from Nathaniel for a marriage in name only, but when the children arrive, she questions her ability to deal with them and she realizes how challenging becoming a wife and mother would be for her. She also realizes she’s fallen in love with Nathaniel. He needs her, he desires her, but will he ever say the words she longs to hear? A Montana Sky Morgan’s Crossing Kindle Worlds book, set in 1885.