A Husband By Christmas

She's A Riddle He Can't Solve

Orphaned and destitute, Marietta agrees to become a King's Girl, one of many women shipped to Quebec to be married to ungovernable settlers. Determined not to be rushed into matrimony, she challenges every bachelor to solve a riddle before allowing them to court her. The scheme buys her time-until the knotty riddle is solved by a most unlikely suitor....