When she answered an advertisement seeking a bride at a remote lifesaving station on faraway Hatteras Island, Hannah Ballinger was desperate. Recently widowed, with only enough money to pay her passage, she was also pregnant.
Of the three men in uniform who meet her at the landing, she is immediately drawn to Penn Warfield, the eldest of five brothers and the keeper in charge of the station. It was Penn who had placed the advertisement seeking a bride for his younger brother Adam. Only Adam has other ideas.
Penn intends to send Hannah back on the next boat. Determined to stay, Hannah makes herself useful at the station. She cooks, cleans, and tends the injured better than any of the brothers can, despite continual clashes with Penn and his no-women-allowed rulebook. When Hannah goes into premature labor, it is Penn who delivers her baby, with the help of a veterinary manual.
Little Sara Mirella Ballinger has all five Warfield brothers for her godfathers. She will need their protection-and her mother will need a husband-if they are going to escape the man who is searching for Hannah to lay claim to her baby.
THE WARFIELD BRIDE won a Maggie Award as best historical romance of the year in 1994.