After eight days in a cramped stagecoach, divorcรฉe Marigold Davis already regrets her decision to come to Denver City to marry. She certainly didnโt realize sheโd signed up for mosquitoes, mud, and scores of rough men eyeing her like a hot meal on a cold day. But with her life in Kansas all but incinerated, Marigold needs a husband. Even if sheโs not the bride that gold prospector Virgil Gardner is expecting...
Virgil Gardner has a reputation as a grumpy hard-ass, and heโs fine with it. Heโs also no foolโthis is not the woman he agreed to marry. It takes a tough-as-nails woman to survive the harshness of a Rocky Mountain gold claim, and this whiskey-eyed, gentle beauty is certainly not the type. Now itโs just a matter of how quickly sheโll quit so he can find a wife who will stick. Someone who can care for the only thing he values even more than gold: his children.
But Marigold isnโt about to give in. Sheโll survive living in a cramped one-room shack, bears who show up while sheโs berry picking, and cooking for an entire crew whose stomachs are bottomless pits. Sheโs got more grit than most. And just when Virgil starts to realize his replacement bride might be the treasure heโs been looking for, an unannounced guest arrives...to change everything.