Emmaline Carruthers Shed More Than Her Clothes Under The Brutal Western Sun... Her 'citified' ways went next, along with her plans for a quiet, dignified life. Instead, she found herself bound to a hotheaded cowboy in a most inconvenient marriage! Ranch foreman Matthew Gerrity was used to having things go his way. So why was he having so much trouble getting his Eastern beauty of a wife to accept that he was the one in charge? The town of Forbes Junction, Arizona, would never be the same!