The Perfect Wife

by Mary Burton, Harlequin, ISBN #0-373-29214-7, $4.99 U.S. / $5.99 Can.

Keeping secrets and telling lies was no way to start a marriage

But what else, Jenna Winslow ruminated, could a woman running from scandal do? Who would ever want an unschooled virgin with a fatherless baby in tow? Certainly not rugged rancher Rowe Mercer, a man with demanding standards - and compelling charms. . . !

Ex-bounty hunter Rowe Mercer had spent a lifetime riding with danger. Now he craved more peaceful pursuits, but when mail-order bride Jenna Winslow arrived "C.O.D." he wondered if his prayers had truly been answered. Could there possibly be a future for a polished Eastern angel and a man with a past he wanted to forget. . . !