Search - Turner's Woman (Harlequin Historical, No.746)

Really good read.

JAKE TURNER WAS A MAN OF SECRETS

And even a woman he'd saved from a Crow massacre couldn't be privy to his true mission. But Emma Lancing was a woman of surprises, blossoming like a cactus rose during their arduous trek through the Western wilderness. Resourceful, brave and beautiful, she alone made him question his solitary life by proving to be the perfect partner for his adventerous soul!

Emma Lancing's only escape from an abusive, hopeless future lay in trusting a man who made it clear she was not welcome in his world. Even so, she was drawn to Jake Turner's rugged fearlessness and independent spirit, which stirred in her unrealized strengths and undreamt-of passions!

Great old fashioned western romance

Just read a 4.5 star Harlequin Historical: Turner's Woman by Jenna Kernan. Should have been named "Emma's Big Adventure". Big adventure story of the west before the wagon trains started the great European migration to the west. While California was still part of Mexico in the south and Northern CA was part of Russia. She ends up on a spy trip for President Andrew Jackson with a hunk of a surveyer who just happens to speak 8 or 9 languages fluently........It is very good. Dumb name, great romance read.