Used book – An Unspeakable Marriage, Dallas Schulze, Françoise Fouche

Laura Halloran gazed at the immense mansion. So it was here, amidst the horses and at the foot of the Rockies, far, far from her native California, that she would now live. Live, that is, share Conner Fox's bed and raise his three-year-old daughter, Mary, knowing neither of them, or almost. What future awaited her here, with this child, and with this man who, after introducing her to pleasure - and a whirlwind of emotions - had only proposed marriage to give Mary a mother? Since Laura had nothing to lose - and certainly not her job as a waitress in a shabby bar - she had accepted the deal, aware that she was the only one to include love in it. But, deep down, she clung to a tiny spark of hope: to make Conner's heart beat as strongly as he made hers beat.