Mareen Silver can get any horse to dance to her tune. But when a damaged soldier rescues her, will she allow him to side-step her away from a previous attachment?

Mareen Silver is used to being hurt—by her cold as ice mother, by her half-sisters who she's longed to be closer to, even by her distant army general father. However, with her family in danger of losing the ranch they all love, Mareen is prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice and marry a wealthy man she doesn't love to save their home. But after taking a nasty tumble, she finds herself falling hard for the wounded soldier who just saved her life.

Wilson Michaels can't escape the guilt that has plagued him every day since surviving the blast that took the general's life. If he can't find absolution, he'll find purpose, and—after a series of incidents—it's looking more and more like that purpose is keeping the general's daughter alive. Protecting Mareen is one thing, but falling in love with her is not a possibility, especially when her marriage could be just the thing to save the ranch.

Wilson can't afford to get in the way again or this time all the Silvers could lose everything. And now that Mareen has tasted true happiness and is finally bonding with her sisters, can she bear to lose the man who's shown her how to love?

Find out if love can truly heal all wounds in this light-hearted, sweet romance of convenient arrangements that unfold into lasting love. His Pledge to Protect is the third in a series of marriage of convenience tales featuring Wounded Warriors who are healed with the power of love.