The Rancher’s Mistake: A Wind River Romantic Comedy (Wind River Mail-Order Brides Book 5)

Widowed rancher Ethan Walker needs help.

His ranch is thriving, but his household is another matter entirely. His eleven-year-old daughter is trying too hard to be grown, his son has turned mischief into a full-time occupation, his youngest daughter follows trouble wherever it leads, and little Jacob needs more care than one exhausted father can give. So Ethan hires a governess.

From her sensible letters, he expects a stern, middle-aged widow who can restore order to his chaotic home.

Instead, Charlotte Pembroke steps off the stagecoach.

Young, pretty, cheerful, and far too refined for ranch life, Charlotte is everything Ethan did not expect. Certain he has made a terrible mistake, he assumes she will be gone within a week.

His children intend to make sure of it.

Frogs in her room, switched saddles, fake emergencies, and one disaster after another greet Wind River’s newest governess. But Charlotte refuses to be driven away. With patience, humor, and a stubborn heart, she begins winning over the children one by one.

Before long, laughter returns to the Walker ranch.

And Ethan begins to realize that the woman he thought was his mistake may be exactly what his family needed.

But when Charlotte’s polished former suitor arrives from St. Louis, offering her security, respectability, and a life far easier than the Wyoming frontier, Ethan must decide whether to speak his heart—or lose the woman who has become the heart of his home.

The Rancher’s Mistake is a clean and heartwarming historical western romantic comedy filled with mischievous children, frontier family chaos, small-town meddling, and a sweet happily-ever-after.