Shotgun Bride (Book Six of the Brides of the West)

A young female doctor, comes to Oregon in hopes things will work out for her career. But the people in Oregon are not much different thinking about doctors than the ones in Boston. Only a few months go by before a man comes in insisting she has to come with him to treat a gunshot wound. Shannon Greer finds herself in the middle of hillbilly country when she's forced to marry a Texas Ranger. Shannon Greer was a doctor who went west to find a bigger and better life. She fell in love with the Willamette Valley of Oregon, but the people didn't seem to respond like she thought they would. When she was dragged to the hills by a man claiming a man had been shot and he'd take her to him, she didn't have any idea what she was getting into. To complicate matters a Texas Ranger shows up with the intent to arrest her patient and the men with him. But nothing prepared her for the Hillbilly woman, known as Ma, that insisted she could not camp out with a bunch of men in the woods without the privilege of marriage. So Shannon found herself married to the Ranger and stumped on how to get out of that situation Shannon Greer went up to the Mountains of Oregon to treat a man with a gunshot wound. She had no idea what she was getting into. A Texas Ranger shows up to arrest the men that brought her here. On the way down a Hillbilly family stops them all from leaving and demands that Shannon marry one of them men, because it's indecent to camp out with such rangy men all night and not be married to one of them. So she's forced into a Shotgun Marriage. But the man she marries, the Texas Ranger, is taking the men to jail in Texas. Afraid he might not come back and help her get an annulment, she decides she's going to Texas with him. After all, he could easily get killed and she'd never even know he was dead!