Left at the Altar When Mary Ellen Barnett found herself facing a church full of guests and no groom on the way, she did what every self-respecting woman would do – she ran! And foolishly ended up in a wilderness town just crawling with big, burly, single men! Steve Rawlings just couldn't figure out what a woman who didn't want a date was doing in a town filled with wolves – of the two-legged variety. But since Steve had the biggest eyes of all for this Little Red Riding Hood, he decided it was his job to shelter her from the hungry pack and claim her for his own.