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"In 1891 Texas, teacher Charlotte Atherton is on the run to keep a little girl entrusted to her care safe, while tracker Stone Hammond is in close pursuit--until he learns the truth of the situation and discovers his heart may have a new pursuit" --
After founding Harper's Station woman's colony, Emma Chandler is eventually forced to admit that the colony needs a man after all, preferably one who can fight, so she calls upon the man whose life she saved, Malachi Shaw, for help.
A young woman, Grace, who is having a long-distance relationship over the telegraph lines with the shy Amos, receives word that the man who killed her father has discovered where she lives, and flees town to continue her courtship with Amos in person.