IN THE WILDS OF TEXAS, SHE FORGED A NEW LIFE ... AND SET HER HEART FREE. She was barely more than a child herself when, left pregnant and completely alone, sixteen-year-old Maggie Clay ventured across the vast Texas plains of the 1870s. Through years of tireless determination, she forged a lfie of hope in the dry, dusty land ... proudly built a cattle empire from a modest ranch and amde a loving home for her young son. Then a shadow from the past tore her world apart—the father of her child returned to claim his son. Now Maggie must stand firm and fight—with the same courageous spirit that drove her to conquer the untamed land.
Author
New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Jill Gregory is the award-winning author of more than thirty novels. Jill has been awarded the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence and her novels NEVER LOVE A COWBOY and COLD NIGHT, WARM STRANGER were honored with back-to-back Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice awards for Best Western Historical Romance. Jill Gregory's novels have been translated and published in Japan, Russia, Norway, France, Taiwan, Sweden, Italy, and Germany. Jill grew up in Chicago and received her bachelor of arts degree in English from the University of Illinois. She currently resides in Michigan with her husband.
