No Other Will Do

Title: No Other Will Do
Author: Karen Witemeyer
Series: Ladies of Harper's Station, book 1
Copyright: 2016 Paperback
Source: Library

published description: Men are optional. That's the credo Emma Chandler's suffragette aunts preached and why she started a successful women's colony in Harper's Station, Texas. But when an unknown assailant tries repeatedly to drive them out, Emma admits they might need a man after all. A man who can fight--and she knows just the one.

Malachi Shaw finally earned the respect he craved by becoming an explosives expert for the railroad. Yet when Emma's plea arrives, he bolts to Harper's Station to repay the girl who once saved his life. Only she's not a girl any longer. She's a woman with a mind of her own and a smile that makes a man imagine a future he doesn't deserve.

As the danger intensifies, old feelings grow and deepen, but Emma and Mal will need more than love to survive.

Interesting idea - community run by women for women - only male visitors are the ones that bring deliveries or perform the Sunday sermon...also decent romance and good suspense.