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Lily Cromwell is desperate to
find her sister, Amanda, now that she has struck gold and become the
richest woman in the Klondike. But the gold means nothing to her if
she can’t find her younger sister whom she believes has fallen in
with a vile gang of thieves.
When the stagecoach she is
riding on with her gold is robbed, she realizes that the passenger
she thought a mere scruffy drifter is actually Dylan Wayburn, the
son of a prominent family she used to work for as a servant. Dylan
and his older brother had taught her a lesson about men she would
never forget—nor could she quite forget Dylan, try as she might.
With the skill of a
gunslinger, Dylan saves Lily but fails to save the gold from the
bandits. Dylan is a Mountie traveling undercover, a secret he
continues to keep from Lily. He’s been pursuing the very gang that
has robbed the stage.
Though Dylan and Lily have
managed to escape, the thieves are intent on leaving no witnesses to
tell tales. They take refuge with an old man and Dylan persuades
Lily that they will have a better chance of success at staying alive
so they can retrieve her gold and find her sister if they pretend to
be married. The thieves are looking for a drifter and a single
woman, not a married couple.
As Dylan struggles to keep his
focus on the task at hand and off of the little redhead who has
burned in his memory since he first tasted her lips so many years
ago, Lily is equally determined not to pick-up where they left off,
especially given the state she has found Dylan in. He may be good
with a gun but to her mind he’s wasted his life. What she doesn’t
count on is her growing attraction to him.
With lots of action, a sensual
romance and an intriguing mystery regarding Lily’s sister, Kate
Bridges takes readers on a memorable journey through the Yukon.
With rugged, independent characters that reflect the time and place,
no one does the Canadian Northwest justice like Ms. Bridges.
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