The Marine Rancher's Convenient Wife

He's a rancher with a deployment date on the calendar: three months until he ships out with the Marine Raiders, and no room left in his life for attachment.

She's pregnant with a child that is not his and on the run, so he marries her at the courthouse so she can use his insurance.

He treats the tension of her pregnancy as a courtesy he can handle, yet he starts looking forward to coming home to her.

When their convenient marriage stops feeling like a formality, the man who left bruises on her throat returns and wants split custody.

Leaving her stateside while that threat still lives is not something he can accept.

He is less afraid of what he might do than of how his wife will see him once she meets the darker side of him.