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Fiction. Romance. Western. Historical Fiction. HTML:19th century Texas was alive with lovers and scoundrels, drifters and dreamers. It was a land brimming with wild, glorious passionsâ??passions New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas tenderly evokes in this novel in the McLain series.

Fleeing trouble in Pittsburgh, young Kara Oâ??Riley has no choice but to travel as far West as her meager funds will take her. And when she hires on as bookkeeper for a sprawling Texas ranch, she quickly decides that her new employer, Jonathan Catlin, is the coldest, strangest man sheâ??s ever known. Heâ??s told her he has exactly one year to make the ranch a successâ??but she has a feeling thereâ??s an awful lot more heâ??s not telling her. For one thing, thereâ??s something odd about Catlin Ranch. For another, she has glimpsed a hint of tenderness in Jonathanâ??s gorgeous, haunted eyesâ??and suddenly her lonely, achin