She's a Yankee who tricks a Rebel soldier into marrying her so she can join a wagon train going west to California. But she didn't count on falling in love with him on the way.
Rebecca Elliot is a widow wanting to travel by wagon train to California where her brother is. She discovers young women aren't allowed to travel with the wagon trains alone. She decides to find a way. The way she finds is to get a young man, Clay fraser to marry her. Temporarily at least. Clay is on his way to California with his brother to find their sister who has run away with her love. She is determined for the marriage to stay one of convenience. Clay is as determined that it will not. The battle begns.
When Yankee beauty Rebecca Elliot discovers that single women-even young widows like herself-aren't allowed on the wagon train bound for California, she takes desperate measures. Spying handsome Clay Fraser, she puts her flirty plan into action and wakes, the next morning, with a wedding band on her finger.
Clay Fraser, a former Confederate soldier, is horrified to discover that he somehow got married last night-and worse, to a Yankee. Worst of all, she refuses to share his bed! Sparks fly and attraction burns as the wagon train heads west, but it will take a love as expansive as the Western sky to show Rebecca and Clay how to claim the passionate new life that is their destiny...
Clay Fraser, a former Confederate soldier, is horrified to discover that he somehow got married last night-and worse, to a Yankee. Worst of all, she refuses to share his bed! Sparks fly and attraction burns as the wagon train heads west, but it will take a love as expansive as the Western sky to show Rebecca and Clay how to claim the passionate new life that is their destiny...
The plot of this novel pivots on the fact that wagon trains did not allow unaccompanied, unmarried women to travel across the country alone. The labor required to handle the animals (oxen, mules or horses) was too taxing for a lone woman. Then there were the additional problems of mechanical breakdowns, inclement weather and problems with Indians. Finally, married women did not like having unmarried women traveling with them for the long months of the wagon train trips.
Our heroine Rebecca Elliott, a Yankee widow, was told by the wagon master that she had to get a husband by the time the wagon train rolled out or she would be left behind. Because Rebecca's husband had been killed by a Confederate soldier, she was horrified to discover that the two men that she could choose from were both ex-Confederates. However, desperate times call for desperate measures; Rebecca got one of the men drunk and married him. The next morning Clay Frasier was enraged to find himself married to a Yankee. The rest of the story is about how Rebecca and Clay found common ground to make a life together.
The story was so engaging that the pages sped by quickly.
Frasers Series
** 1. Frasers - Clay (2004)
2. The Lawman Said I Do (2005)
3. His Boots Under Her Bed (2006)
4. One Night with a Sweet-Talking Man (2008)
5. Holding Out for a Hero (2009)
Our heroine Rebecca Elliott, a Yankee widow, was told by the wagon master that she had to get a husband by the time the wagon train rolled out or she would be left behind. Because Rebecca's husband had been killed by a Confederate soldier, she was horrified to discover that the two men that she could choose from were both ex-Confederates. However, desperate times call for desperate measures; Rebecca got one of the men drunk and married him. The next morning Clay Frasier was enraged to find himself married to a Yankee. The rest of the story is about how Rebecca and Clay found common ground to make a life together.
The story was so engaging that the pages sped by quickly.
Frasers Series
** 1. Frasers - Clay (2004)
2. The Lawman Said I Do (2005)
3. His Boots Under Her Bed (2006)
4. One Night with a Sweet-Talking Man (2008)
5. Holding Out for a Hero (2009)
