Even more surprising, Reed Benton denies having ever placed the ad, written the letters or married Kate. When she arrives at Benton's sprawling Lone Star ranch, she is surprised to discover that her new husband is a Texas ranger who defends the frontier against Native Americans, has recently been wounded during a raid on a Comanche village and has captured an eight-year-old Comanche boy he believes may be his long-lost son, Daniel. After months of correspondence, she agrees to a marriage by proxy, packs her bags and heads off to the Texas frontier. Approaching spinsterhood at the age of 30, Kate answers the newspaper ad of Reed Benton, a widowed Texas rancher seeking a mail-order bride. Born in 1842, Kate Whittington, abandoned daughter of the Applesby, Maine, town tramp, is raised in a cloistered orphanage. Following a slew of well-received romance paperbacks ( Come Spring Blue Moon etc.), Landis serves up a tender, satisfying historical romance as her hardcover debut.
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