A Dangerous Love Author:Michael Phillips This is ISBN 0-8423-3921-3 in HARDCOVER, book club edition. — In the passenger coach of the Union Pacific train chugging eastward toward Kansas City, Mercy Randolph sat smiling beside Jody Simmons, unable to get Jeremiah's face out of her mind. The rancher's wife knew well enough what she was thinking. — As the train pulled out of the station, th... more »ey waved through the window to Zeke and Jeremiah until they could see them no longer. Then they sat back and talked almost nonstop for the next hour and a half, until now a thoughtful silence fell between them.
"I think you've found yourself a fine man," Jody said at length.
Mercy sighed contentedly. "It's so hard to believe," she said. "Everything was so wrong, and now everything is so right. I never dreamed that when I went back to Louisville, it would be to make plans to be married!" Mercy looked out the window across the flat prairie and let out a deep sigh. She would not see Jeremiah for many weeks.« less