Harper's Bride
Alexis Harrington
A desperate husband trades his wife and daughter to a gruff prospector — who turns out to have the warmest heart.
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A lovely lady and her young daughter are offered up as payment to a hardened prospector by a beleaguered, indebted husband. But what is considered a practical payoff soon becomes a passionate romance, as the woman discovers a warm heart behind the prospector's cold exterior. And when the deadbeat dad returns to collect what he feels is rightfully his their lives will change forever!
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