The Bride Of Bitter Creek
(2026)(The first book in the Southern Belle Runaway series)
A novel by Eva Evangelian and C Wayne Winkle
‘You don’t belong here.’
Evie DuBois steps off the stagecoach in Redemption’s End, Wyoming Territory with a silk dress soaked in mud, a false name, and a disassembled Henry rifle hidden in her trunk. She is not looking for love. She is running from a carpetbagger’s marriage contract and the ashes of everything her family once owned.
What waits for her is Hayes Boone—a battle-scarred Confederate veteran with shrapnel still buried in his leg from Cemetery Ridge, a failing cattle claim, and a mail-order advertisement written in desperation. He expected a capable frontier wife who could cook and launder. He got an Alabama aristocrat who can’t tell flour from alum, ruins four work shirts on her first laundry day, and very nearly burns the cabin down.
But Evie is harder to kill than she looks.
As winter closes in and a ruthless claim-jumper backed by Philadelphia money sends killers to burn them out, the Southern belle and the guarded rancher forge a marriage of raw necessity on ground that demands everything. She learns to shoot, to doctor wounds, to stand her ground. He learns that the woman he never wanted may be the only one strong enough to help him keep what’s his.
On the frozen slopes of Bitter Creek Ranch, survival is no longer enough.
Because the greatest danger isn’t the outlaws at the door or the shrapnel in his leg—
It’s daring to trust again.
The Bride of Bitter Creek is a Western Historical Romance featuring a runaway Southern belle, a battle-hardened rancher, frontier danger, slow-burn redemption, and a hard-won happily ever after. No cheating. No cliffhangers.
Tropes: Mail-Order Bride • Marriage of Convenience • Grieving Veteran • Strong Southern Heroine • Ranch Defense • Enemies-to-Lovers Tension • Post-Civil War Wyoming
Saddle up for the raw heart of the Old West — available now. FREE with Kindle Unlimited.
Genre: Inspirational
Evie DuBois steps off the stagecoach in Redemption’s End, Wyoming Territory with a silk dress soaked in mud, a false name, and a disassembled Henry rifle hidden in her trunk. She is not looking for love. She is running from a carpetbagger’s marriage contract and the ashes of everything her family once owned.
What waits for her is Hayes Boone—a battle-scarred Confederate veteran with shrapnel still buried in his leg from Cemetery Ridge, a failing cattle claim, and a mail-order advertisement written in desperation. He expected a capable frontier wife who could cook and launder. He got an Alabama aristocrat who can’t tell flour from alum, ruins four work shirts on her first laundry day, and very nearly burns the cabin down.
But Evie is harder to kill than she looks.
As winter closes in and a ruthless claim-jumper backed by Philadelphia money sends killers to burn them out, the Southern belle and the guarded rancher forge a marriage of raw necessity on ground that demands everything. She learns to shoot, to doctor wounds, to stand her ground. He learns that the woman he never wanted may be the only one strong enough to help him keep what’s his.
On the frozen slopes of Bitter Creek Ranch, survival is no longer enough.
Because the greatest danger isn’t the outlaws at the door or the shrapnel in his leg—
It’s daring to trust again.
The Bride of Bitter Creek is a Western Historical Romance featuring a runaway Southern belle, a battle-hardened rancher, frontier danger, slow-burn redemption, and a hard-won happily ever after. No cheating. No cliffhangers.
Tropes: Mail-Order Bride • Marriage of Convenience • Grieving Veteran • Strong Southern Heroine • Ranch Defense • Enemies-to-Lovers Tension • Post-Civil War Wyoming
Saddle up for the raw heart of the Old West — available now. FREE with Kindle Unlimited.
Genre: Inspirational
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