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Promises to keep. Danger to outrun. Della Epps’s heart yearns for adventure. She has promised her dying father she would follow his dream of exploring Europe. But first, she has to make sure her mother is settled and safe, and they arrange for the mother to be a mail-order bride. Della travels west to meet the prospective groom. He turns out to be a dreadful man, and she is soon on the run from his evil clutches. But has she jumped from the frying pan, into the fire, in her haste to escape? Andy Shannon isn’t ready for marriage. He has places he wants to see, things he wants to do. He enjoys being on his own in the mountains. But his world is turned upside down, when he finds a young woman hiding in his wagon. She brings with her danger and adventure... just not the kind of adventure he’s seeking. Will Della and Andy be trapped in a marriage they don’t want?
Author
Linda Ford grew up devouring books and making up stories in her head—often late at night when she couldn't sleep. But she hadn't planned to write. Instead, she dreamed of running an orphanage. In a way, that dream came true. She married, had four homemade children, adopted ten and lived (at times, endured) the dream. Writing first took her to non-fiction human-interest articles for newspapers and eventually a non-fiction book about tuberculosis set in the 1930s and 1940s (Touched By The White Plague). But romance had always been her first love and she turned to writing love stories. She is multi-published in the CBA market. She lives on a small ranch in Alberta, Canada, where she can see the mountains every day. She and her husband continue to enjoy their children and grandchildren.
