When eighteen-year-old Mariah found herself pregnant and unmarried in her small Colorado town, she disappeared.One year later, she returned with a baby-though minus the "husband" who had conveniently ventured off to Alaska's gold fields to seek his fortune. . . . But now, with handsome adventurer Wes Burrows turning up and claiming to be the husband she had invented, Mariah's lies become flesh and blood-and her wildest dreams a reality!