This writer is at the top of her game with this intensely romantic, witty tale of love in the Old West. Not only does she know the human heart, Austin's research skills are obvious in all her books.

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This is a nice fun, fast, easy read. It really was a cute story.

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The setting is 1867, western Kansas, at the time a very wild place. The Indians had not yet given up and retreated or been driven onto reservations, and the country was still unsettled in the aftermath of the Civil War. Rebecca had grown up in forts on kansas, but was sent East to school by her widowed Army officer father, and is returning home after an absence of six years. Lieutenant Forrester is returning to his post after being home on leave to his native Virginia. A graduate of West Point, he had chosen service in the West as a way to avoid betraying either his country or his state in the war. Lt. Forrester is to lead a supply train from Fort Riley to Fort Hays, Rebecca's only way back to her father. And he doesn't want to take her....

A fun and engaging story, full of history and romance. Set in a time where report of an embrace between an unmarried man and woman could precipitate a wedding....

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