Search - A Wanted Man

The pampered daughter of a wealthy tycoon, Laura Hamilton, chronically ill most of her life but now healthy has never been allowed to spread her wings .. until now. Embarking on a transcontinental railroad, she intends to enjoy her grand tour and new-found freedom. But her adventure only really begins when a dangerous man boards her train.

The ravages of war and imprisonment in Andersonville have hardened Sam Duncan. Now the only friend still alive from Andersonville has vanished behind the guarded gates of the Silver Spur Ranch. After trying to get into the Silver Spur once and being beaten within an inch of his life, forces Sam to try another tactic. Laura Hamilton plans to visit the Silver Spur, as her father is a close business associate and investor with the Silver Spur's owner. Claiming to be a body guard hired by her father, Changing his appearance, Sam plans to stick close enough to Laura to gain entrance to the ranch. However the situation becomes complicated. Sam falls for Laura, and they discover many terrible things happening at the ranch. Hints of forced abductive slavery in the ranch's silver mines. Is this what happened to Sam's friend? Can Sam trust Laura when her father may be a willing partner in what's going on?

Sam Duncan was too young when he marched off to war and was brutally imprisoned. He's witnessed and experienced a lifetime of cruelty and he's lost too much to care about anything ever again. While he was captured, his entire family died, leaving him with the only person he cares about - his cellmate, Griff. As a result, his steely nerves have made Sam one of the most famous and feared hired guns in the west. Then Griff disappears inside the gates of Hamilton's fabulously profitable Silver Spur ranch. Sam figures that posing as a bodyguard of the Baron of Banking's daughter, who's come to visit, will be the simplest solution to finding his way in.Little did he expect that fighting a war would do so little to prepare him for an encounter with the very adventurous and alluring Laura.

Historical romance, western.