Enjoy Bestselling Author Karen Witemeyer's Terrific New Romance Men are optional. That's the credo Emma Chandler's suffragette aunts preached and why she started a successful women's colony in Harper's Station, Texas. But when an unknown assailant tries repeatedly to drive them out, Emma admits they might need a man after all. A man who can fight--and she knows just the one.Malachi Shaw finally earned the respect he craved by becoming an explosives expert for the railroad. Yet when Emma's plea arrives, he bolts to Harper's Station to repay the girl who once saved his life. Only she's not a girl any longer. She's a woman with a mind of her own and a smile that makes a man imagine a future he doesn't deserve.As the danger intensifies, old feelings grow and deepen, but Emma and Mal will need more than love to survive.
Who needs men? Not the Ladies of Harper Station. Well, they didn't till someone tried to burn their church down, shot at them through the church window, and frightened the whole town. Harper's Station is a town run by women, a sanctuary for women in need. Emma Chandler settled it with her two aunts, and is now the town banker. With her ladies now in danger, she calls in an old friend- Malachi Shaw. Malachi was 'saved' by the Chandlers when he was younger, and is now working with the railroad. When Emma ask's him to help, he drops everything and rushes out to help. With fresh eyes to the situation, Malachi soon sees whoever is behind this is having help from the inside. But who? Will the suspicion drive their unity apart? The only thing holding them together? Will they find the traitor before its too late? And can Malachi get over his own feelings of self contempt and realize that yes, Emma was the best thing that ever happened to him?
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