Unbridled

Lost Fortune - Historical Western Romance Is he her salvation...or her undoing? When Rilla Staab returns to Boston after graduating from a Parisian finishing school, she learns she's not only an orphan, she's illegitimate. She's a love child of means, thanks to her father's bequest, but all hope for a suitable match is gone. Rilla buries her shame under an assumed identity and flees West, her only regret she may never again see the charming, grey-eyed Cal Dalton, whose brief acquaintance is burned in her memory. Pinkerton agent Cal Dalton can't forget the fleeting moment he held the prim and proper "Miss Privet" in his arms-the one bright spot in a long, fruitless, and distasteful assignment to find a mysterious heiress for a greedy client. When Cal receives a letter from Miss Privet confessing her true identity, he realizes the very woman he seeks is the woman who haunts his dreams. It's as simple and as complicated as that. Especially since Cal's client thirsts for revenge-and Rilla's very life hangs in the balance between Cal's sworn duty and his heart.

A burden shared is a burden halved...but will its sharp edges destroy them both? Once loved and sheltered, Kamari Faraday bears her burdens in lonely silence, fending off the unwanted attentions of the powerful man who thinks a lowly half-breed should be his for the taking-the same man who killed her father and forced her mother into hiding. But now, backed into a corner and at the end of her rope, Kamari takes the biggest risk of her life: trusting handsome, haunted Cassidy Dalton with her secrets. A man whose long-ago touch still warms her memory. After raising his young son to survive in the mountain wilds, widower Cassidy Dalton reluctantly brings the boy to his sister-in-law's school in Longchapel. But when he discovers the beautiful schoolteacher shivering with cold and fear in the night, something stirs in the empty space that once held his heart. Kamari never wanted anyone to fight her battles for her, but as both she and Cassidy face danger-together-raising the ghosts of their pasts could be their only hope.