
Multi-Award Winning, Best Selling Author Ben Lonigan needs a wife to live with him for twelve months, or he will lose his ranch. Rachael Fairchild has lost her religious beliefs. She is on the run, and in search of sanctuary. Her ex-lover, an aspiring politician, has tried to kill her because she is carrying his child. Lottie from the Flaming Star saloon has a solution to Rachael and Ben’s problems. Marry each other. Can this temporary marriage between two scarred, disillusioned people, turn into something permanent?
Author

Margaret Tanner is an award winning, best selling author. As well as writing historical novels set in frontier Australia she has discovered a love for writing Western Romance. Her novella, Edwina of Connecticut is one of the 50 novels in the American Mail Order Bride series. Christmas Cowboy is in the Western Christmas Anthology, Silver Belles And Stetsons. . She has had numerous short stories published over the years, but writing Historical romance novels is her passion. Her favourite historical period is the 1st World War. Not only has she painstakingly researched this era, but was fortunate enough to make a poignant pilgrimage to the battlefields of Gallipoli (in Turkey), France and Belgium. She is married with three grown up sons, and two gorgeous grand-daughters. Margaret lives in Australia. She has recently retired from work, and hopes to concentrate on her writing.