First published 2012
Colorado marshal David Paxton opens a letter that changes everything. A woman he has never met writes to him as her husband, begging him to come rescue her and the daughter she claims is his. The plea sounds desperate, but Paxton knows he has never been married. Still, something about the letter compels him to investigate. He travels to find this mysterious woman and discovers she has genuine reasons for reaching out to him. Paxton finds himself responsible for two strangers who need his protection. The woman and child become his unexpected family, but their arrival brings complications he never anticipated. As danger threatens his new dependents, Paxton must decide how far he will go to keep them safe. What begins as duty transforms into something deeper when he realizes these strangers have become the family he never knew he wanted.
Genres: romance, mystery, contemporary-romance, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: found-family, second-chance
Setting: Colorado
Period: 19th-century, 20th-century
688 pages · Hardcover · Thorndike Press