Marie Ferrarella 
Stand-In Mum 

Gentlehearted Marta Jensen had come to the Alaskan wilderness to find herself, not to get involved with a bachelor dad in way over his head. So why had she agreed to care for Ike Le Blanc’s orphaned niece? Because Marta couldn’t refuse to help a man in need, despite her jaded heart’s inclination to resist a man in demand.Now she was powerless against a man who unleashed the passion she’d kept tightly controlled. One who made her dream of having a family come true. But before the baby arrangement ended, could Marta convince this committed bachelor to make his ward’s stand-in mom his own full-time wife?