LUCAS'S CONVENIENT BRIDE

LUCAS'S CONVENIENT BRIDE

<em>Return to 1800's Defiance, Colorado, in this beguiling story of finding love in the most unexpected places from #1 </em>New York Times<em> bestselling author Susan Mallery</em> <Br><Br>Lucas and Jackson MacIntyre stand to inherit the saloon, gold mine and ranch that define the town of Defiance, Colorado. There's just one problem: the uncle who has left them the properties created a clause in his will stipulating that both brothers must marry if they want to claim their inheritance. <Br><Br>Emily Smythe knew she'd likely never marry, and she's moved to Colorado to prove her independence from her family. She has a shrewd business sense, so when she approaches Lucas about turning the saloon's vacant upper level into a hotel, he sees the logic in the idea. Lucas has a proposition for Emily, too: become his wife in name only so that he can claim his inheritance, and she can run her hotel in his saloon. But though the marriage may be a business arrangement, Lucas soon finds it difficult to resist his new wife… <Br><Br><em>Previously Published Historical Novel.</em>