Peshtigo Fire Chronicles

A fiery heroine teams up with a gruff detective to catch a thief, but the real danger may be trusting each other. With her family nearing destitution and her home on the brink of foreclosure, Carina Clarke has little left to lose. Yet in one fateful evening, the 1871 Peshtigo Fire destroys the last of all she holds dear and separates her from her sister and friend. Carina vows to find them-even if it means moving to a different city and taking up work at a textile mill while she searches. Oliver Ramhurst is determined to make his father proud of his work as a Pinkerton detective. His assignment to capture a thief at a textile mill in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, could be the opportunity he needs-if the feisty Miss Clarke will stay out of his way. When the clever woman offers to help him ferret out the culprit, Oliver reluctantly agrees. But does she want more from him than she's saying? As the danger grows and they draw closer to discovering the true identity of the thief, Carina and Oliver realize that nobody is who they seem. Carina must decide who can be trusted and who may be a villain in disguise-for when the hour grows dark, trust may be the only thing that can save her.

A mysterious locket brings a fire survivor and a wounded veteran together, but their growing feelings might be more dangerous than the men pursuing them. Charlotte Clarke survived the flames that destroyed her town and took her family, but at what cost? Left injured and alone, she seizes the chance for a fresh start when a dying friend asks her to take a locket to a relative in Kentucky. But she has no means to reach her destination until she meets a handsome horse trainer headed south and convinces him to let her travel with him. Haunted by his years in the cavalry and desperate to save his family's failing stables, Stefan Roberts is focused on transporting his father's racehorses to Kentucky for the spring races. He isn't looking for complications-especially not in the form of a determined young woman with secrets of her own. Yet as they travel together, Charlotte's courage and determination begin to crack the walls he's built around his heart. When a shadowy pursuer closes in, Stefan and Charlotte must face the pasts they've been running from, and the faith they thought they'd left behind, before their fragile hopes for the future go up in smoke.