A change of heart needs a reason

A backstory can serve different purposes. It can establish a secret relationship, a reason the character acts a particular way, give information about what has happened before the beginning of the story, explain why a minor character is in an unusual situation or explain a villain’s reason for turning good. For those who have read the story, this will help explain the motive in more detail and for those who haven’t read the story, it may cause you to pick up the book.

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The Civil War is over when Zach Ravenswood returns home and discovers his uncle, Seymour Woods, has plans to steal his inheritance and isn’t above nearly killing him. He’s hired Vance Edwards to sell all the horses on the farm so he can pocket the profits.

Vance is a man introduced in the first and second books in the series. He has caused trouble for the Beecher family several times, so it is no surprise he is behind the plot to steal from Zach.

In this story Vance returns from serving in the Confederacy to his home in Vandalia, West Virginia and finds two graves and his home in ruins. He takes the job for Seymour with plans to cheat him out of the money to restore his farm. This story has one cheat stealing from another cheat. The night before the horse auction, Vance kidnaps Cassandra Beecher, our heroine, to force the hero, Zachary Ravenswood, to go through with the sale and turn over the money to Seymour so Vance can steal it from him.

Cass realizes who Vance really is and tells him a secret that shocks him. Will it change his heart? The reader doesn’t know until the end.

Blurb: Cass Beecher hopes Sergeant Zach Ravenswood will fall in love with her on an outing to Ford’s Theater, only to have their world turned upside down with President Lincoln’s assassination. Her romantic plans continue to be thwarted by family, friends, and a mysterious stranger. Can she save the man she loves from the enemies that plot to ruin him?

Zach thought with the war over, he could turn his attention to wooing the lovely Cassandra, but a fortune teller’s dire predictions begin to come true when a fire disfigures him, a nun poisons him, his uncle steals his inheritance, and he’s shot. Is he going mad or is everything not as it appears?

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