The Miner's Wife

Mudhole Mill was a ramshackle mining town situated in the middle of absolutely nowhere, and the last thing Cody expected to buy there was a wife. And yet, when he saw that passing missionary auctioning off his daughter for enough money to keep on traveling, Cody couldn't help but join the bidding. Who'd have thought he'd win a bride? What's more, who'd have thought that quiet, skinny girl in the back of her daddy's wagon would turn into the same bold as brass woman he found himself confronted with the first time he tried to enter his own tent and ran straight into the business end of a pistol. Oh yes, Dulcie was a fiery woman. But after so many cold and lonely nights, a little bit of heat was a welcome thing. And besides, any time Dulcie got a little too big for her britches, well, Cody knew how to take her back down a peg. A man didn't get to be his age without learning how to light of a few fires of his own--ones that would burn beneath the seat of her skirts and for a good, long time!