The Tenderfoot Bride
Cheryl St. John
A gruff rancher hired an experienced widow — not this timid young woman hiding secrets.
Description
Will Tucker is a gruff impatient rancher, eager to hire an experienced cook and housekeeper so he can shift part of the workload from his own shoulders to those of the capable Widow McConoughy.Then Linnea McConoughy shows up. She's young. Timid. And entirely inappropriate for the hardships and workload she's hired to handle. And she has secrets...
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