Molly Brennan has scrubbed her stepmother's floors for two years. Her father is dead. Her home is gone. And the fifty-year-old dry goods man in town has already asked for her hand.
Then she finds her father's forty-three dollars hidden inside a hollowed-out book of Tennyson, and she answers an advertisement from a Montana rancher.
Victor Downing's letters promise mountains, honesty, and the sound of another voice in the house. The man who meets her at the station is none of those things. He is older, crueler, and the house at the end of his long drive has a locked door at the top of the stairs that carries a sweet, stale smell.
There is only one man on the ranch who sees her clearly. Luke Dawson is the head hand, Missouri-born, quiet as weather. He leaves a blanket at her window. He kills a rattler at her feet. He watches her hands tremble and understands what the tremor means.
Then Molly finds the diary of Victor's first wife. Every page is written in a dying woman's hand.
The wedding is in two weeks. The town is half a day's ride. And the only road to deliverance runs through the mountains, with two armed men at their backs.
How far can a woman run with a murderer's secret pressed against her spine?
Genre: Romance
Then she finds her father's forty-three dollars hidden inside a hollowed-out book of Tennyson, and she answers an advertisement from a Montana rancher.
Victor Downing's letters promise mountains, honesty, and the sound of another voice in the house. The man who meets her at the station is none of those things. He is older, crueler, and the house at the end of his long drive has a locked door at the top of the stairs that carries a sweet, stale smell.
There is only one man on the ranch who sees her clearly. Luke Dawson is the head hand, Missouri-born, quiet as weather. He leaves a blanket at her window. He kills a rattler at her feet. He watches her hands tremble and understands what the tremor means.
Then Molly finds the diary of Victor's first wife. Every page is written in a dying woman's hand.
The wedding is in two weeks. The town is half a day's ride. And the only road to deliverance runs through the mountains, with two armed men at their backs.
How far can a woman run with a murderer's secret pressed against her spine?
Genre: Romance
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