The Widower's Bride: Clean and Wholesome Western Historical Romance: 1

A letter five years old. A groom who no longer exists. And a second chance she never saw coming.Elizabeth Monte has nothing left to lose. With her family's plantation in ruins and her two young sisters facing the cold reality of an orphanage, she makes a desperate choice: she answers a matrimonial advertisement sent to Charleston years ago.She arrives in the dusty outpost of Oakhill, Texas, expecting a wealthy, cheerful cattle baron. Instead, she finds William Alvin-a man carved from grief and tempered by silence. The optimistic bachelor who penned that letter is long gone, replaced by a widowed father struggling to raise a daughter who has not spoken a word since her mother's death.William wants to send her back. Elizabeth refuses to go.Bound by a signed contract and the desperate need to save her sisters, Elizabeth strikes a deal: a marriage of convenience. But as she breathes life back into William's cold, quiet home, she begins to discover the man hidden beneath the mourning. In a land that demands everything, Elizabeth and William must decide if they are brave enough to fight for a new beginning-or if the ghosts of the past will keep them apart forever.