He's a contented man, with a good life and a good woman to love.
Until his past comes calling...
Forced from the only life he'd ever known, Edward left it far behind him to sail to the young and rowdy gold rush town of San Francisco. Here he reinvents himself as Cook, a former seaman with a mysterious past.
As the years pass, he's gathered a large group of friends around him. Abandoned or castoff, they've banded together and become a family by choice. And now, at last, he's found Dina. The woman he wants to spend the rest of his life with. Cook is a contented man.
Until his past comes calling again, with a desperate plea that he keep a promise he'd made long ago.
His sense of duty, and his conscience, demands that he honor the decades-old promise to his family by blood, but his heart yearns to stay with his family by choice and fight for a future with the woman he loves... but he can't do both. He'll have to choose one and leave the other behind forever.
His birthright or love? Which will win?
Set in San Francisco during the gold rush, Only One Beginning is the seventh book in the Circle of Friends Series. Come meet Cook and Dina and all the unusual, bold and engaging people around them, who band together and form an unbreakable Circle of Friends.
Only One Beginning is part of a series that includes recurring characters but can be read as a stand-alone novel.
Genre: Historical Romance
Until his past comes calling...
Forced from the only life he'd ever known, Edward left it far behind him to sail to the young and rowdy gold rush town of San Francisco. Here he reinvents himself as Cook, a former seaman with a mysterious past.
As the years pass, he's gathered a large group of friends around him. Abandoned or castoff, they've banded together and become a family by choice. And now, at last, he's found Dina. The woman he wants to spend the rest of his life with. Cook is a contented man.
Until his past comes calling again, with a desperate plea that he keep a promise he'd made long ago.
His sense of duty, and his conscience, demands that he honor the decades-old promise to his family by blood, but his heart yearns to stay with his family by choice and fight for a future with the woman he loves... but he can't do both. He'll have to choose one and leave the other behind forever.
His birthright or love? Which will win?
Set in San Francisco during the gold rush, Only One Beginning is the seventh book in the Circle of Friends Series. Come meet Cook and Dina and all the unusual, bold and engaging people around them, who band together and form an unbreakable Circle of Friends.
Only One Beginning is part of a series that includes recurring characters but can be read as a stand-alone novel.
Genre: Historical Romance
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