He's focused on the future... The past is all she knows. Together they're forced to face today. His months in Salisbury prison taught Union Captain Tanner Bell to detest a southern drawl, and Widow Cranford's exaggerated Dixie twang has him gritting his teeth. His plans for a ranch are threatened when his orphaned newborn niece is delivered to him, and he desperately needs her help. Raylene Cranford survived a Georgia winter living on acorns and scrawny rabbits before traveling sixteen-hundred miles to carve out a life in Colorado. She lost everything—except her dignity and hope. Her feminine Southern graces are her armor, but maintaining appearances could cost her love. Can a Southern belle and a Union soldier change deeply-ingrained misconceptions about themselves for the sake of a child?