Summer Moon - Hardcover

When mail-order bride Kate Whittington, who is desperate to escape her dismal existence in a cruel Maine town, arrives in Texas to meet her new husband, Reed Benton, she is shocked to discover that he has never heard of her, and she becomes determined to melt the bitter rancher's icy heart, in a powerful novel of hope, love, and new beginnings. 50,000 first printing.

thor Jill Marie Landis has gifted readers with award-winning love stories that express the most intimate longings of the human heart. With unique insight and irresistible wit, she breathes vivid life into her characters while depicting superb settings of stunning beauty and realism. Now, in her long-awaited hardcover debut, Jill Marie Landis tells the tender tale of a woman without choices who risks everything for one last chance at happiness.

RANCHER SEEKING WIFE. For Kate Whittington, the modest words of a newspaper ad are the answer to her desperate prayers. Daughter of a dockside harlot and raised in a bleak orphanage, she has no prospects in the unforgiving Maine village of her birth. Correspondence from the lonely Texas widower looking for a mail-order bride sparks tempting dreams of a house, a family, and a future in a land filled with possibilities.

Kate arrives at the magnificent Lone Star Ranch eager to meet her new husband. Instead she is greeted by the news that R