Description:Trapped in a loveless
marriage, Lark Elliot longed to lead a normal life like the pretty women
she saw in town, to wear new clothes and be courted by young suitors.
But she had married Cletus Gibb, a man twice her age, so her elderly
aunt and uncle could stay through the long Colorado winter in the
mountain cabin he owned. Resigned to backbreaking labor on Gibb's ranch,
Lark found one person who made the days bearable: Ace Brandon. But when
her husband paid the rugged cowhand to father him an heir, at first
Lark thought she had been wrong about Ace's kindness. It wasn't long,
however, before she was looking forward to the warmth of his tender
kiss, to the feel of his strong body. And as the heat of their desire
melted away the cold winter nights, Lark knew she'd found the haven
she'd always dreamed of in the circle of his loving arms.