The Keeper of Hawk's Hollow (Brides West)

By Annie Clayton

She fled two thousand miles to save her mother. She never expected to find a husband fighting the same enemy.

Philadelphia, 1878. When Verity Lane discovers that her charming stepfather is drugging her mother and forging her name, she has ninety days before he takes everything. The law belongs to him. The doctors belong to him. So Verity answers the plainest advertisement she has ever read: a Montana surveyor wants a wife in name only, someone to hold his homestead while he works the high country. No romance promised. None sought.

Gideon Marsh is exactly as advertised: quiet, honest, and gone most weeks. But the letters they trade through a hollow fencepost begin to say more than either intended, and the silent mountain man keeps solving problems his wife never told him she had. Then a polite stranger arrives in the valley asking questions, and Verity must finally speak her enemy's name.

She has no way of knowing that her husband already carries it like a scar.

Eleven years ago, Gideon burned his own name to the ground trying to bring Chester Pryor to justice, and he lost everything. Now the two people Pryor needs destroyed are married to each other, and the trail leads back east, to a locked house, a courtroom, and a mother who has secretly been fighting all along.

They married for convenience. They will stand together for love, for family, and for a reckoning eleven years overdue.

A sweet, clean mail-order bride romance with a courageous heroine, a steadfast mountain man, letters that turn into love, and a happily-ever-after worth every mile.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HFGSVJJM
• ISBN13: 9798192485279
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"