Calico Canyon By Mary Conneally

Let yourself be swept away by this fast-paced romance, featuring Grace Calhoun, an instructor of reading, writing, and arithmetic, who, in an attempt to escape the clutchs of a relentless pursuer, runs smack dab into even more trouble with the 6R's - widower Daniel Reeves, along with his five rowdy sons. When a marriage is forced upon this hapless pair - two people who couldn't dislike each other more - an avalanche isn't the only potential danger lurking amid the shadows of Calico Canyon. Will they make it out alive? Or end up killing each other in the process?

Another great addition to the Lassoed in Texas Series, Mary Does a great job of bringing these two people together.
These Two are the last possible people you would think of being together. She a Prim School Teacher, He a Rough Cowboy with 5 boys! Now these boys you would think bad enough if they were all seperated by a few years, but NO! not so lucky...the older 2 are twins, and the younger 3 are tripplets! Can you IMAGINE? I guess I could, but I certaintly wouldn't want to be their teacher! As you can guess these boys give Grace a Hard time of it! And Their Father isn't much better, she actually calls him,

'The leader of the Rats, the man ad the intelligence of the average fence post,
the personality of a wounded warthog, and the subbornness of a flea-bitten mule.
Grace silently apologized to all the animals she's just insulted.'

Grace has had a difficult life, she was adopted by an abusice father, she has overcome many trials and discovered how brave she can be. Now she's in Texas doing her dream of being a teacher, while she has to send money home to her sisters...But this dream may not be what she wants, now that she has convinced the 5 Reeves' to come to school. They may just ruin everything.
But Everything changes when you father comes to Texas intending to kill her...when she makes her wild escape into a land she hardly knows, it leads her to the winter she'll never forget....The Winter she's Stuck with the Reeves Family...in a little cabin...