Avoiding love and entanglements has been easy for Hank Barringer since losing his wife and young son to influenza. An outrider on the wagon train, his only job is to keep the mail order brides and passengers safe until they reach their destination. Then he meets Eliza Tanner. She’s different than other women. Seemingly fearless—her feisty manner disrupts his well-ordered idea of how a woman … should behave. He doesn’t approve, so why can’t he stop thinking about her?
Eliza has secrets and a past that could destroy any chance she has of building a new life. When an opportunity arises to join a wagon train full of mail-order brides headed to Oregon City, she flees from her old life. Little does she know that danger from her past stalks her, or that a killer’s obsession will be strong enough to follow her to the other side of the country.
When Eliza’s past catches up with her, she’ll need a real hero…a man who can accept the truth, and love her despite the circumstances of her past.
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Eliza is a former abused prostitute who has paid her way out of her contract and is now headed to Oregon to make a new life for herself. Hank is a tortured outrider for the wagon train who doesn’t think that he can ever love another woman after losing his wife and son to influenza years ago. Upon first meeting, Eliza realizes that Hank makes her feel things that she really hasn’t felt before and that she probably doesn’t want to feel now; Hank realizes that Eliza is the first woman that he has truly noticed and wanted to spend time with in a long while. Their journey to a happy ending is full of wildness and is a story that shouldn’t be missed as it is full of babies, accidents, adventure, true friendship and love. This book was so well written that while reading I could truly picture myself as part of the wagon train experiencing the things that Eliza was experiencing. I love this series by Ms. Woolf and I hope there will be more books.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.