The Favored Cowboy

After a tragic mistake cost him everything, veterinarian Thatcher Hoyt is doing his best to start over in the high country of Colorado. He’s gaining back his life, but he’s missing one thing—his mail-order bride, who should have arrived well before Christmas. Fleeing from her husband’s murderer, Amelia Stone makes it to Breckenridge, Colorado, as a mail-order bride. When she’s thrust into a wedding with her groom by an excited crowd, she hopes that this time she will have a respected place in the community and a happy home to give to her unborn baby. Thatcher is relieved his bride has finally arrived, but it doesn’t take long after the wedding for him to realize that many things about his new wife don’t add up.

A mistaken mail-order-bride identity turns a rushed wedding into an ethical dilemma once Thatcher’s intended bride is still expected. Amelia’s pregnancy and flight from violence raise the stakes, while the romance examines grace, public respectability and the obligations created by vows made before the truth was known.