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First in the series, we learn exactly how the wife lottery worked. When three women turn themselves in, after thinking they killed a man who tried to rob them when they were evicted from the wagon train, the sheriff doesn't know what to do. Since they can't find the body, he decides to raffle them off in marriage, with the husband to be paying their fine. Bailey chooses taciturn loner Carter's name, and when she moves out to his ranch, she finds out how deep his emotional wounds are.

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