First Comes Marriage

THEN COMES LOVE...

If heiress Laurel Whitcomb, owner of Whitcomb's Department Store, wanted to save her fortune, she had to find a husband born and bred in Tollis county -- and she had to find him fast. The terms of her grandmother's will seemed medieval -- especially the part about having a baby -- but Laurel was stuck with the facts...and the reality that the one man available was a rabble-rousing veterinarian named Ben Sayer.

If Ben, the only vet in his small hometown, wanted to save nearby Pickerel Pond from developers, he had to find a great deal of money -- fast. Nothing but his passion for his cause could have made him accept Laurel's marriage proposal. But there was one thing the in-name-only newlyweds never expected to find: true love -- and the promise of a lifetime of wedded bliss.