Can they leave the past behind?

Second Chance Family by Winnie Griggs

Sheriff Mitch Hammond has vowed never to love again, for fear of wounding someone else. The most he can offer Cora Beth Collins is a marriage in name only. And with no other way to adopt two runaway orphans and keep her patchwork family together, she accepts. But despite his intentions, Mitch is starting to want more from Cora Beth…and from himself.

Marrying the Preacher’s Daughter by Cheryl St.John

Bounty hunter Gabe Taggart is ready to settle down and set aside his past. Until his intervention in a train robbery leaves him injured and under Elisabeth Hart’s care. Despite his plans for a quiet life, antagonizing his feisty caretaker is the most fun Gabe’s ever had. Elisabeth provokes him, too, with her strong mind and kind heart. But will his dark history bar him from marriage to the preacher’s daughter?