Shot Gun Grooms: Lucas's Convenient Bride / Jackson's Mail Order Bride

Shot Gun Grooms: Lucas's Convenient Bride / Jackson's Mail Order Bride
Maureen Child

Susan Mallery

Now, thanks to their cagey uncle's ironclad will, saloonkeeper Lucas MacIntyre was forced to find himself a bride. So he proposed a chaste businesslike "merger" to Miss Emily Smythe, a uniquely enterprising schoolmarm. But how could he keep them wed in name only when all he wanted to do was bed down with his bride in her brand-new inn?And as for his brother….The fur would fly sure enough when his bear of a brother, Jackson, woke up to find himself hitched to Miss Molly Malone. He'd thought surely she was mistaken. But delirious with fever, he'd unknowingly consummated their marriage. And the Irish firebrand was determined that their union stick "'til death did them part"! Well, now he was guaranteed his inheritance, but what was the miner to do with a wife?

SHOTGUN GROOMS by Susan Mallery and Maureen Child

Lucas’s Convenient Bride

When loner Jackson MacIntyre wakes up from a delirious fever, it’s to find that he’s not only wedded Miss Molly Malone, but he’s bedded her, too! Yes, he’ll get his inheritance now that he’s fulfilled the terms of his father’s will by getting married, but how can he enjoy it when an Irish spitfire’s determined to complicate his life? It certainly doesn’t help that he can’t resist her no matter how hard he tries…

Jackson’s Mail-Order Bride

Lucas MacIntyre stands to inherit half of a saloon, gold mine, and ranch, but there’s just one problem: his uncle created a clause in his will, stipulating that he and his brother must marry if they want to claim their property. So Lucas proposes that Emily Smythe, the hard-edged newcomer, become his wife so that she can manage his saloon and he can inherit. But Lucas never counted on falling for Emily…

Praise for the authors of SHOTGUN GROOMS

SUSAN MALLERY

“Susan Mallery is warmth and wit personified. Always a fabulous read.”

—New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd

“Ms. Mallery’s unique writing style shines via vivid characters, layered disharmony and plenty of spice.”

—Romantic Times Magazine

MAUREEN CHILD

“Maureen Child is one of the foremost names in Americana romance.”

—Romantic Times Magazine

“…unique, endearing characters grab hold of your heartstrings and never let go…”

—Rendezvous

Shotgun Grooms

Susan Mallery & Maureen Child

Harlequin Historical #575

Join the fun with

Susan Mallery

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Maureen Child

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SHOTGUN GROOMS

** an exciting Western historical featuring 2 stories in 1 **

Lucas and Jackson MacIntyre are forced to marry in order to claim their inheritance!

But will these brothers find everlasting love?

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Lucas’s Convenient Bride

Booklist

CHAPTER ONE