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Judd Seavers doesn’t understand how his brother Quint could go off to the Klondike and leave a beautiful woman, knowing she could be with his child. Maybe because he doesn’t understand Quint’s wanderlust, especially since all Judd has wanted to do since his return from the Spanish-American War is stay home—and be left alone with the demons that plagued him. But when Hannah Gustavson finds she is with his brother’s child, there is only one thing for Judd to do—marry her. With the proviso, of course, that their marriage would be in name only and that Hannah would be set free to marry Quint upon his return. In the meantime, the unborn child would carry the Seavers name and Hannah would be protected from the town’s gossip. If her beauty and open manner touched Judd’s heart, it could be of no matter. The horrors of war had made him unfit to be a real husband to any woman and she loved his brother, not him.
With Quint gone and her family struggling to feed the mouths they already have, Hannah can do nothing but accept the awkward proposal of the serious and dour Judd Seavers. As long as the handsome rancher with a broken spirit didn’t ask for more.
But as they come to lean and depend upon each other, something happens that neither of them had foreseen. Will they lose the struggle against their burgeoning feelings? And what will happen if and when Quint returns home?
In Borrowed Bride, Elizabeth Lane has captured the emotional turmoil that occurs when people try to do what is right—and the line gets blurred. Quint is mired in the Old West—looking for the next frontier and its promised freedom—while Judd represents the evolving West ---someone who understands the price paid for that freedom and recognizes the hope for a better future in the institutions of marriage and family. With well crafted characters and a difficult dilemma, this story will keep you turning the page as it captures your heart.
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