The Wrangler

In 1880s Tombstone, one sprawling ranch family is about to change — one bride at a time.

Clara Martin has spent her whole life being useful and overlooked — first at the bakery, now under the watchful eye of an older brother who decides what she may and may not do. The one place she feels truly herself is beside a frightened animal, where a soft word and a steady hand are all anyone asks of her.

So when a letter arrives from her best friend Sadie — now happily settled in Tombstone — with word that a rancher at Archer Ranch needs a wife, quickly, and for reasons that have more to do with a deed than with love, Clara surprises everyone, including herself, by saying yes.

Hank Archer needs the marriage to keep the land his family left him. What he doesn't expect is the quiet woman who calms his skittish mare with a touch, asks for nothing, and slowly makes the ranch feel less like an obligation and more like a home. Neither of them planned on falling in love — but the heart, like a good horse, has a will of its own.

Meanwhile, Hank's father Beau is still locked in his grief, guarding every memory of the wife he lost — including a garden no one has been allowed to touch. Until Clara.

The Wrangler is the second book in the Archer Family Ranch saga, a sweet historical romance about a marriage of convenience, a gentle heart finally seen, and the home you don't expect to find — for readers who love wholesome frontier romance and warm western towns.