Author: Sara Luck
Publisher: Pocket Books
Publication Date: 27 December 2011
Debut novelist Sara Luck bursts onto the romance scene with this sultry Western set along the Oregon Trail.
Susanna Ward Kirkland, a journalist for the Virginia City Pioneer, was raised by Gus and Minnie Kirkland after her parents died on the wagon train coming West. Her foster father wants her to marry Jesse, his son, and out of a sense of obligation, she agrees. Then Susanna meets Rab Trudeau. A wealthy businessman who lives in San Francisco, Rab has interests in a silver mine in the Comstock Lode. But unscrupulous mine managers are manipulating the stock prices, aided by the very paper that employs Susanna. A strong attraction develops between Susanna and Rab, but it is fraught with obstacles. Can Rab and Susanna find the happiness they seek?