A bride with a secret. A groom in a jail cell. A town that believes what it is told.
Verity Vaughan is almost painfully honest. It is the reason she lost everything in Philadelphia, and the reason she answered the advertisement of a Texas bank clerk who wrote the plainest, truest letters she had ever read.
She arrives in Freshwater Creek on the very morning Cameron Hart is arrested for emptying the bank vault of the town's station fund.
The evidence is perfect. Too perfect.
Refusing the fare home, Verity takes work with the seamstress, a room in the stern nurse's house, and a vow: to find out which Cameron Hart is real, the thief the town describes or the man in the letters.
But the closer she comes to the truth, the more dangerous Freshwater Creek becomes. A stranger with fine boots has vanished. A runaway wagon nearly kills the deputy's wife. And a powerful man offers Verity one last kindness: leave on the morning train, or the single lie she ever told will be read aloud for the whole town to hear.
She came west to be a wife. She stays to be a witness.
Some promises are worth walking through fire for.
Genre: Romance
Verity Vaughan is almost painfully honest. It is the reason she lost everything in Philadelphia, and the reason she answered the advertisement of a Texas bank clerk who wrote the plainest, truest letters she had ever read.
She arrives in Freshwater Creek on the very morning Cameron Hart is arrested for emptying the bank vault of the town's station fund.
The evidence is perfect. Too perfect.
Refusing the fare home, Verity takes work with the seamstress, a room in the stern nurse's house, and a vow: to find out which Cameron Hart is real, the thief the town describes or the man in the letters.
But the closer she comes to the truth, the more dangerous Freshwater Creek becomes. A stranger with fine boots has vanished. A runaway wagon nearly kills the deputy's wife. And a powerful man offers Verity one last kindness: leave on the morning train, or the single lie she ever told will be read aloud for the whole town to hear.
She came west to be a wife. She stays to be a witness.
Some promises are worth walking through fire for.
Genre: Romance