The Montana territory was supposed to be the l of dreams for Elizabeth O'Brian.
But when influenza claims her husb baby, Elizabeth doesn't know if she can go on. Then a stranger approaches her with a plea she can't ignore. Jake Hargrove is desperate. His brother's death left him in charge of his two part-Sioux nieces–one an infant. Jake knows the baby can't survive the harsh western winter without a wet nurse.
A marriage of convenience with this grieving mother seems to be the only answer. Fighting for the acceptance of their charges gives Jake Elizabeth new purpose. With the Christmas season approaching, dare they hope that they also could receive the gift of love?
Janet Tronstad grew up on her family’s farm in central Montana and now lives in Pasadena, California where she is always at work on her next book. She has written over thirty books, many of them set in the fictitious town of Dry Creek, Montana where the men spend the winters gathered around the potbellied stove in the hardware store and the women make jelly in the fall.