Synopses & Reviews
Years after she is driven from England to the new world frontier, Lady Verity Talbot reencounters her lost love, the vengeful Miles Broderick, who is unaware that Verity desperately seeks their missing child.
Synopsis
She was a lady--but he was no gentleman. The earth shook with a dull roar as the buffalo herd bore down upon them. Terrified, Verity raced into the arms of the buckskin-clad stranger. Suddenly the tempestuous Lady Verity Talbot knew the thrill of recognition and flash-fire desire. Here in the godforsaken reaches of Wyoming Territory was the man she had tried to escape from more than twenty years before, an intimate stranger who ignited the embers of memory, passion--and hate. Now he would help her find the son he never knew he had.
At last she was his--the beguiling beauty against whom he planned sweet revenge. Miles Broderick, Viscount Linden, was a frontiersman now. Verity owed him her life, and she'd pay the ultimate price--marriage--before he would help her find her son. Finally he'd won, driving her from England, forcing her to begin again, here in the land of frontier justice, where she needed him as never before.
Synopsis
In a novel of high-riding adventure and long-simmering desire, New York Times blockbuster author Joan Johnston brings to life a sweeping story of lost love, shattering secrets, and a passion waiting to be reclaimed. More than twenty years ago, young Verity Talbot made the ultimate sacrifice to protect the man she loved: She married the brute who threatened to kill him. Verity, Countess of Rushland, also kept a shattering secret, allowing the son of Miles Broderick, Viscount Linden, to be raised as another man's heir. Now a widow, Verity and her grown son, Rand, arrive in the Wyoming Territory to begin a new life--only to face a reckoning.
When Miles makes the stunning realization that he's just saved the life of the only woman he has ever loved--who chose to marry another man--he is torn between anger at her betrayal and uncontrolled desire. Miles is shattered and rages against fate when he learns the truth about the son he never knew existed--until Rand is captured by a Sioux warrior. Suddenly, Miles realizes that the only future worth living is one with Verity--as they race to rescue their son and fulfill their dreams.