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Can Love Survive The Secrets Buried Deep In The Plains? Gus Quaid has endured life's cruelest blows-none more devastating than the loss of his wife to a Brule Sioux raid. Content with solitude and his work as an Army scout, he avoids entanglements until a bold, city-bred beauty in a Fort Benton saloon catches his eye. Intrigued by her fire and desperation, he makes a daring proposal-and is promptly rejected. But Gus isn't one to walk away from a challenge. Tori Barrett has known betrayal and hardship, first by a husband who left her broken, then by a business partner with dangerous demands. On the run and desperate for a way out, she sees in Gus a chance at safety, even if his penetrating gaze unsettles her carefully guarded secrets. With the promise of protection, she boards the Nellie Peck bound for Fort Randall, but Tori quickly learns Gus's trust is hard-won-and easily shattered. As the pair journey toward the railroad, the rugged plains strip away pretense, forcing them to confront old wounds and undeniable longing. But Tori's past has a long reach, and when they arrive in Ogallala, it brings a reckoning neither of them expects. Faced with betrayal, guilt, and a shocking revelation from Gus's own shattered past, they must decide if the love growing between them is strong enough to survive-or if the frontier will claim their hearts, as it has so many before.

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Susanna Lane lives with her husband in rural northern Georgia, having lived most of her life in southern New Jersey. Together, they have two successful sons and daughters-in-law, as well as four adorable grandchildren, the gems of her life. Besides reading and writing, Susanna loves to travel the backroads of the Old West, and at one time, on horseback in the Rockies. Awestruck by the mountains at her first sighting, she finds nothing more intriguing than exploring and envisioning the pioneer experience and uncovering their stories. Retired from teaching, Susanna has the time now to write and walk beside her characters, figuring out what they'd say and how they'd say it. The underpinnings of her writing are both characterization and the alluring history of the Old West. She's a proud member of both Women Writing the West and Western Writers of America, having had the fortune to be awarded both the WWA Spur and the Will Rogers Silver Medallion in 2022 for her first novel, Imperfect Promise.

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