His Beloved Bride: Historical, inspirational fiction by bestselling author

Phillip Dickinson is in need of a wife and a child to fulfill his part of the trust fund coming his way... Only he's been too busy building his frontier ranch to spend time courting and wooing, and truth to tell, no one in town has caught his eye that way... and there's no small number of single women who have tried. But Grandma's lawyer is on the way with a sizable check in hand, and if Phillip doesn't scare up a family, that check goes straight back to the Pennsylvania bank it came from for another year.

And then Phillip overhears of a woman in trouble. Widowed in the recent South Dakota blizzard, Grace Hawthorne has a newborn and not much else in a bug-filled dugout. She lost her husband to the blizzard and her home to fire. Her dire straits could be exactly what Phillip needs. She needs a home for her and the baby. He's got a nice one waiting. If he can convince her to stay with him for a year, he'll be able to prove up on the trust and then she can be on her way. He sweetens the deal with the promise to build her a decent home to replace the one she lost. It's a sweet business deal all around, until Phillip falls head over heels in love with his wife. But when she goes back to her own claim, to the little house he built her, is Phillip strong enough and man enough to convince Grace that she is His Beloved Bride?

This story was previously published in the "With This Kiss" historical collection with various other author's stories.