Captive of the Storm
(2026)(The first book in the Bitterroot Veil series)
A novel by Susan Leigh Carlton
The Bitterroot Veil, Book One
A Dark Historical Time-Travel Romance
Eliza Morgan enters Montana’s Bitterroot Mountains seeking quiet after loss. Instead, a blizzard unlike any other drives her toward a strange, waiting light—and into the past.
She wakes in 1874 Montana Territory, half-frozen and rescued by a man the valley fears.
Caleb Blackwood lives alone in the mountains, exiled by violence and rumor. Accused of killing the men who destroyed his family, he has survived by keeping his distance from the world—and from hope. Eliza is a mystery he never wanted: a woman with impossible knowledge and eyes that look at him without fear.
Trapped together by an unforgiving storm, desire grows in the silence between them—slow, restrained, and dangerous. Caleb never locks the door. Eliza is free to leave.
She stays.
But when the storm breaks, the light that brought her across time returns with a choice. Loving Caleb means surrendering the future she came from. Leaving means losing the man who has become her home.
In the Bitterroot Mountains, the light does not rescue.
It waits—and it demands a price.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
A Dark Historical Time-Travel Romance
Eliza Morgan enters Montana’s Bitterroot Mountains seeking quiet after loss. Instead, a blizzard unlike any other drives her toward a strange, waiting light—and into the past.
She wakes in 1874 Montana Territory, half-frozen and rescued by a man the valley fears.
Caleb Blackwood lives alone in the mountains, exiled by violence and rumor. Accused of killing the men who destroyed his family, he has survived by keeping his distance from the world—and from hope. Eliza is a mystery he never wanted: a woman with impossible knowledge and eyes that look at him without fear.
Trapped together by an unforgiving storm, desire grows in the silence between them—slow, restrained, and dangerous. Caleb never locks the door. Eliza is free to leave.
She stays.
But when the storm breaks, the light that brought her across time returns with a choice. Loving Caleb means surrendering the future she came from. Leaving means losing the man who has become her home.
In the Bitterroot Mountains, the light does not rescue.
It waits—and it demands a price.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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