But waiting on customers and
stocking shelves has never been Charlie’s idea of
adventure. She
knows all about adventure. She is after all the daughter of legendary mountain man, Micah Fremont. If anything, she is better suited being a pioneer than waiting on them.
She longs to break away and fly to freedom. Marriage and this domestic life are too full of
restrictions to suit her taste - and all those expectations to act like a proper lady! Could life get any worse?
But then it does - when she learns her
father and her best friend have joined the same wagon train bound for Oregon. They will be leaving - but she will stuck here! How can that be? If anyone should be going on this adventure, it should be her.
Just when she thinks life couldn't get any more unfair, unspeakable tragedy strikes.
A raging fire comes off the dry prairie. Half the town is ravaged. Many
buildings burn to the ground - one of them, West's General Store.
Some of her friends are injured – and a few die, including Grant.
At only age 19, Charlotte Mary West is now a widow. She has no home, destitute with no means of support ... and
the biggest shocker of all, she soon learns she will become a mother.
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Only twenty-seven years old and Dirks
Braelen is on the run. Memories of his past in Texas as a hired gun haunt
him. He craves to hang up his holster, to finally find some peace for his soul - maybe even a woman to love and a family.
But two men who hail from Texas have different visions for Dirks' future. Over 500 miles they trail him, vengeance and hate seething deep in their hearts.
Dirks is trying to escape his past.
Charlie wants to
escape this life forced upon her.
Will they ever find the contentment and future they desperately seek?
Perhaps they will find their answers in a story from Micah Fremont's past.
But first, they must learn the
secret of The Sacrifice of the Sage Hen.
