The Cowboy's Honourbound Bride — Mysty McPartland

Her only chance of safety, Carlin agrees to wed a complete stranger she had never met by proxy and leave her beloved Scotland forever. She travels to America to deliver a letter to her husband and then continue on her journey. It shocked and infuriated her that he refused to let her go. Her dreams of the future were cruelly crushed and left her with only two options to find a way to flee or decide to make her marriage a true one. Hayden was struck senseless when he came home and found a beautiful, young woman waiting for him. After reading a missive from his father disbelief and rage swept through him. Without being informed or consulted he'd had a wife forced on him. He wanted to get rid of her but he couldn't he was honorbound but before he let himself become involved and truly make her his wife he must first be agreeable to accept the situation and until he did he had to keep his hands off her no matter how tempted he was to take her to bed.