A Novel with Thoughts and Ponderings

HIGH PLAINS WIFE

Author: Jillian Hart ISBN:0373292708 8/2003 HISTORICAL Publisher: HARLEQUIN HISTORICAL
Time Period: Old West

High Plains Wife by Jillian HartMontana's wide open plains were as empty as her newlywed heart. Rancher Nick Gray, once Mariah's girlhood crush, wanted a mother to tend his children, not a wife to warm his bed. Still, she'd made that bed; now Mariah had to lie in it. Yet could she bear to lie in it alone?

He was finished with romance! Nick Gray just needed someone to manage his life. So who better than avowed spinster Mariah Scott? Surely she'd appreciate an uncomplicated marriage of convenience. But now that they were married, could he? Because his new wife was turning out to be much more than he had ever bargained for…

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS: 4 Rose Read

I love to find a book that keeps me turning the pages, has a comfortable plot, and has me just a bit teary-eyed but smiling while I read. Jillian Hart's HIGH PLAINS WIFE did just that. It has themes of unrequited love, marriage of convenience, and a loving single parent...all of my favorites! <G> The heroine Mariah has loved Nick Gray since she was a teenager, but her father squashed that relationship before it could get started, throwing Mariah in later life into becoming a cold-hearted spinster. But that is a facade; she needs to be loved and to give love, and this marriage of convenience gives her both. Nick is a recent widower that needs a mother for his children-but not a wife-so now that Mariah's father is gone, their romance can begin.

HIGH PLAINS WIFE is another great Harlequin Historical and Ms. Hart has become one of my favorite western authors.

DeeKay

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