Bitter Creek Dowry
(2026)(The third book in the Southern Belle Runaway series)
A novel by Eva Evangelian and C Wayne Winkle
‘Some debts are paid in blood. Others are paid in everything you love.’
Evangeline Boone thought the war was behind her. She thought the forged deeds, the railroad barons, and the ghosts of Gettysburg had finally been laid to rest. She was wrong.
When Aldous Crane—the ruthless Philadelphia financier who has spent years bleeding Bitter Creek dry—kidnaps her father and reveals the devastating truth that their son Thomas is alive and being raised as Crane’s own, Evie makes the only choice a mother can. She rides out alone into a trap, leaving behind the only man who has ever truly seen her.
Hayes Boone wakes to an empty bed and a note that breaks him. Drugged. Deserted. And now facing the one fight he cannot win with a rifle: the war for his wife and the child he never knew he had. With his leg barely healed and his vow never to kill again hanging by a thread, Hayes must choose between the ranch he built from nothing and the family Crane intends to destroy.
As winter closes in and Crane’s hired guns close the net, Evie and Hayes are forced into a desperate race across the frozen Wyoming frontier—mother and father, husband and wife, law and lead—toward a final reckoning in a steel-vaulted room where the only weapon left is the truth.
In the unforgiving heart of the West, survival is no longer enough.
Some debts can only be paid with an iron dowry.
Bitter Creek Dowry is the explosive third installment in the Southern Belle Runaway series—a raw Western Historical Romance of sacrifice, redemption, and a marriage forged in fire and blood. No cheating. No cliffhangers.
Tropes: Marriage Tested • Secret Child • Ruthless Antagonist • Gruff Protector Hero • Resilient Southern Heroine • Legal Warfare to Armed Siege • Found Family on the Range • No More Killing Vow
Saddle up for the unforgettable next chapter of the Southern Belle Runaway series — FREE with Kindle Unlimited.
Genre: Inspirational
Evangeline Boone thought the war was behind her. She thought the forged deeds, the railroad barons, and the ghosts of Gettysburg had finally been laid to rest. She was wrong.
When Aldous Crane—the ruthless Philadelphia financier who has spent years bleeding Bitter Creek dry—kidnaps her father and reveals the devastating truth that their son Thomas is alive and being raised as Crane’s own, Evie makes the only choice a mother can. She rides out alone into a trap, leaving behind the only man who has ever truly seen her.
Hayes Boone wakes to an empty bed and a note that breaks him. Drugged. Deserted. And now facing the one fight he cannot win with a rifle: the war for his wife and the child he never knew he had. With his leg barely healed and his vow never to kill again hanging by a thread, Hayes must choose between the ranch he built from nothing and the family Crane intends to destroy.
As winter closes in and Crane’s hired guns close the net, Evie and Hayes are forced into a desperate race across the frozen Wyoming frontier—mother and father, husband and wife, law and lead—toward a final reckoning in a steel-vaulted room where the only weapon left is the truth.
In the unforgiving heart of the West, survival is no longer enough.
Some debts can only be paid with an iron dowry.
Bitter Creek Dowry is the explosive third installment in the Southern Belle Runaway series—a raw Western Historical Romance of sacrifice, redemption, and a marriage forged in fire and blood. No cheating. No cliffhangers.
Tropes: Marriage Tested • Secret Child • Ruthless Antagonist • Gruff Protector Hero • Resilient Southern Heroine • Legal Warfare to Armed Siege • Found Family on the Range • No More Killing Vow
Saddle up for the unforgettable next chapter of the Southern Belle Runaway series — FREE with Kindle Unlimited.
Genre: Inspirational
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