A Secret Brought Them Together, But the Truth Might Keep Them Apart When Peter Mayes moves his whole household to the gold rush town of San Francisco, and then promptly deserts them, it’s left to his niece, Shannon, to provide for her small cobbled-together family. Using the writing skill she’d honed back East, Shannon sells her adventure stories to the penny press under the guise of her alter-ego, Sam. But Shannon has another reason for needing a secret identity, and it puts her dead center in the sights of a killer. Luke Donovan doesn’t care about the gold in the mountains. He’s working toward owning his own ranch to raise beef and train cow ponies, and all he wants to do is to go after his dream without any distractions. But his reluctant attraction to Shannon Mayes, and then becoming an unwitting target himself for the killer she’s uncovered, is a big distraction. With a deadly menace closing in, and well-kept secrets becoming revealed, it will take her rescuing him, and him rescuing her, to give the dynamic Shannon and easy-going Luke a chance for a life together. And of course, they will also need a little help from their growing circle of friends. Set in San Francisco during the gold rush, Only One Promise is the sixth book in the Circle of Friends Series. Come meet Luke and Shannon and all the unusual, bold and engaging people around them, who band together and form an unbreakable Circle of Friends. Only One Promise is part of a series that includes recurring characters but can be read as a stand-alone novel. It contains romance, suspense as well as spice and heat.