A Bride for Oliver by Margaret Tanner

Will his protection be enough to save her?

Zoey Ebron’s stepfather wants her to marry a convicted felon when he is released from prison.
She has secretly been writing to a lonely widower who needs a mother for his young daughter.
After making a daring escape from a locked hotel room, Zoey travels to meet her would-be groom, only to discover he is dead.

Sheriff Oliver Gentry, has sole care of his orphaned niece and realizes he needs a woman’s help.
In desperation he asks Zoey, his dead brother’s mail order bride, to marry him.
Will she accept his reluctant offer?