Katie and Luke flee from danger only to find themselves in the middle of a war. Independent Katie Lachlan heads West to escape a wealthy, powerful suitor who won't take no for an answer. Luke Savage kills a man in a gunfight and vows he'll never carry a handgun again. As she flees her stalker and he runs away from his past, they discover that more than danger links them on their journey together along the brand new transcontinental railroad. Caught in a snowstorm, they are forced to travel on foot across a wintry landscape. While Katie learns that independence is no match for force, Luke discovers that saving Katie is more important to him than the vow he made. Striving together against wilderness, gunfighters bent on retribution, and a frontier town on the brink of riot, they find their strength, their convictions, and their very love tested by adversity and danger. "Get ready for a wild, rollickin', hold-onto-your-hat ride. The American West comes to life in ... a story of love, honor, and revenge." Lisa Jackson best-selling author of IF ONLY SHE KNEW
FROM THE PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE: Among her varied careers are a couple Judith B. Glad actually chose, rather than falling into. With her children in school, she decided it was time for her to follow her own dreams, so she went back to school and studied botany. After completing her M.S., she became a botanical consultant, and spent the next twenty-odd years picking flowers for a living. Well, it was a little more complicated than that, but she picked enough flowers to keep her happy.
Consulting is not always steady work, so one slow winter Judith decided to spend a little time at her second career choice. Now she'd done a lot of writing as a consultant, but somehow describing proposed mine sites and interpreting statistical data wasn't the kind of writing she wanted to do. So she wrote a book. And another, and... Before she knew it, she was spending more time writing than picking flowers.
Judith lives in Portland, Oregon, where her garden blooms all year 'round and the long, rainy winters give her lots of time for writing.