Publisher's Synopsis
After a stint teaching in stuffy boarding schools, schoolteacher Zebadiah Kaine is delighted to find a school that allows freedom for both his love of nature and his unconventional teaching methods. Even if his family does think he's mad for moving to the Montana Territory. When he meets gorgeous, rude bookkeeper René Wellington, Zeb is shocked that such a small man can have such nerve, but as he and René are repeatedly thrown together in the cramped society of Bedford Creek, Zeb's annoyance is replaced by maddening temptation. René Wellington's bookkeeping certificate is no more real than his last name. (He knows a very talented forger). Luckily, the Montana wilderness is the perfect place for a former swindler to settle into anonymity. Having spent his childhood in orphanages and brothels, René doesn't make a habit of forming attachments, but when he takes wholesome, kind-hearted Zeb as his lover, he quickly learns Zeb isn't the sort of person he can keep at arm's length. To find their happily ever after, they'll have to contend with a matchmaking matron, a greedy railroad baron from René's past, and their own deeply rooted convictions on love and morality.
