Only Mine

This novel is about a half Native American/half British aristocratic bastard and a Scottish lady. Jessie doesn't want to get married to an old aristocrat known for his sexual salaciousness. She has horrible memories of her father raping her mother in order to beget a male heir. Unfortunately, no future deliveries yielded a live heir and Jessie had to help with each one at 9 yrs of age. So Jessie tricks her best friend Wolfe Lonetree into marriage wrongly thinking that theirs could be a marriage of convenience. Wolfe is so angered by her sexual rejection (because he's a half-breed?) that he deliberately sets Jessica up to fail as a wife to a bastard frontiersman. He tries to convince her to get an annulment. Jessie tries her best to be a proper western woman. She goes from not knowing how to comb her own hair, cook, etc. to riding astride long distances, making edible food and to wanting to give Wolfe a child. Wolfe is deliberately taunting and cruel to her and throws in her face his adoration and respect for his best friend Cal's wife, Willow Black.