One of the most reliable western romance writers today!

"Story and style remind me of LaVyrle Spencer."   - Linda Howard 

He's focused on the future. 
The past is all she knows. 
Together they're forced to face today.

His months in Salisbury prison taught Union Captain Tanner Bell to detest a southern drawl, and Widow Cranford's exaggerated Dixie twang has him gritting his teeth. His plans for a ranch are threatened when his orphaned newborn niece is delivered to him, and he desperately needs her help.

Raylene Cranford survived a Georgia winter living on acorns and scrawny rabbits before traveling sixteen-hundred miles to carve out a life in Colorado. She lost everything-except her dignity and hope. Her feminine Southern graces are her armor, but maintaining appearances could cost her love.

Can a Southern belle and a Union soldier change deeply-ingrained misconceptions about themselves for the sake of a child?

USA Today best-selling author Cheryl St.John is the winner of numerous awards, including   Affair de Coeur's   Silver Pen, three   Romantic Times'   Reviewer's Choice Awards, Write Touch Reader's Award, a Writers Digest Writing Competition and four RWA RITA Awards.

"With a few brushstrokes, this author captures place, character, moment."   - Loretta Chase

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