Herne Bardwick, blacksmith, has loved Onora since they were teens but he was too slow in revealing his feelings and she married another. With the birth of her child last year, Herne decided to join a wagon train heading to Oregon to start a new life. Two days before departure, he spots a plume of smoke in the direction of Onora’s house. He finds her slumped on the front steps to the shotgun house and pulls her away from the flames. Fingers burned and hair singed, she mutters ‘my baby, my baby’ before she faints. He carries her to his cousin’s house where Doctor Latimer tends her burns.
Pain in her hands and her chest awaken Onora to a world she doesn'''t recognize. The kind doctor and his wife are strangers, as is the tall man who stares with such caring in his eyes. Why can''t she remember her name or how she came to be injured? Believing these people have her best interests at heart, she agrees to a marriage of convenience and to joining a wagon train west. With burns that will need time to to heal, she can no longer…do what? How had she made a living? She’s lucky to have this quiet man willing to escort her to a new future.
As the wagon train moves farther west, Herne sees signs Onora’s memory is returning, and guilt weighs on his shoulders. What will happen when she recalls her former life and looks at him in horror at the subterfuge he’s enacted?
Genre: Inspirational
Pain in her hands and her chest awaken Onora to a world she doesn'''t recognize. The kind doctor and his wife are strangers, as is the tall man who stares with such caring in his eyes. Why can''t she remember her name or how she came to be injured? Believing these people have her best interests at heart, she agrees to a marriage of convenience and to joining a wagon train west. With burns that will need time to to heal, she can no longer…do what? How had she made a living? She’s lucky to have this quiet man willing to escort her to a new future.
As the wagon train moves farther west, Herne sees signs Onora’s memory is returning, and guilt weighs on his shoulders. What will happen when she recalls her former life and looks at him in horror at the subterfuge he’s enacted?
Genre: Inspirational
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