The Barefoot Bride: A Novel

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From New York Times bestselling author Joan Johnston, this Pure Gold selection features a gorgeous new cover and a classic mail-order bride story full of passion, secrecy, surprises, and a happily-ever-after for two unlikely people. From genteel Boston to the wilds of Montana, she is searching for a safe haven for her family-and finds unexpected love. Having lost her beloved husband, a whaling captain, to a watery grave, Molly Gallagher refuses to risk more heartbreak. Determined to keep her headstrong son from following in his father's footsteps, she agrees to become the mail-order bride of a Montana country doctor. She tells her new husband that she can never give her love to another man; what she doesn't tell him is that she has a young daughter and a rebellious teenage son. Molly's ruse might have worked, but Seth Kendrick has secrets of his own- a willful daughter determined to end the marriage before it even begins-and a double life keeping his neighbors safe from outlaws. In an untamed land of vigilante justice, Molly has no choice but to trust this gray-eyed stranger whose stubbornness matches her own, whose kisses unleash flash floods of desire-and who may be the one man in a million who could win her fiery, faithful heart. "A book you will read and remember for a long, long time . . . Wonderful characters light up the pages."-Rendezvous

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A book you will read and remember for a long, long time . . . Wonderful characters light up the pages.Rendezvous

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Joan Johnstonis theNew York TimesandUSA Todaybestselling author of more than sixty historical and contemporary romance novels. She received a master of arts degree in theater from the University of Illinois and graduated with honors from the University of Texas School of Law at Austin. She is currently a full-time writer living in Colorado.