title: Wyoming Bride: A Bitter Creek Novel
author:  Joan Johnston 
description: <b>Joan Johnston</b>is the<i>New York Times</i>and<i>USA Today</i>bestselling author of more than sixty historical and contemporary romance novels. She received a master of arts degree in theater from the University of Illinois and graduated with honors from the University of Texas School of Law at Austin. She is currently a full-time writer living in Colorado.
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  LUKE'S MONTANA BRIDE
  
  
  Brothers of Montana series Book 1
  
  
  BY
  
  
  MAYA STIRLING
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  CHAPTER ONE
  
  
    
  
  
  Montana 1887
  
  
    
  
  
  Amber Scott crouched in the darkened corner of the musty smelling stagecoach
  station building and glanced at Mrs. Jones one more time, checking to see if
  her fellow traveler was bearing up under the pressure.
  
  
  Of course Mrs. Jones was fine. Amber had only known the elderly woman a few
  short hours but she could tell that it would take more than two grizzled and
  very dirty ruffians holding up a stagecoach, and keeping its occupants
  prisoner, to distress the grey haired, full figured lady.
  
  
  Not that Amber wasn't entirely immune herself to the situation she'd found
  herself hours before. It wasn't every day that a young woman travelling
  through the wilds of Montana ended up being made a virtual prisoner inside a
  staging post on the trail that lead to her eventual destination.
  
  
  Amber frowned as she thought of how close she'd come to 