High country bride

In this first novel in the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling McKettrick Cowboys trilogy, three brothers are in a race against time to inherit their father's ranch.One ranch.

Three sons. Only one will inherit, and on one condition. Tired of waiting for his sons to settle down, Arizona-territory rancher Angus McKettrick announces a competition: the first son to marry and produce a grandchild will inherit Triple M ranch.

Now, three distinctly different, equally determined cowboys are searching high and low for brides.

Rafe McKettrick loves only one thing more than his freedomthe Triple M ranch.

In his bid to win it, he marries a woman he's never met.

To his surprise, Emmeline is as beautiful as she is spiritedbut she's clearly hiding a secret.

Emmeline Harding discovered she couldn't hold her liquor the hard way.

Uncertain why she woke up next to a stack of gold coins in a brothel and fearing the worst, she fled town as a mail-order bride.

Now, she must confess her past to her handsome new husband.

But as the newlyweds are suspiciously circling each other, a visitor from the past enters the high country.

Can Rafe and Emmeline give up on a marriage in name only and seek a union that satisfies them body and soul?