Newspaper reporter Katherine Love goes undercover in order to investigate, and ultimately expose, suspected Chicago stock-swindler Rupert Samuels. As she moves closer to uncovering Samuels's schemes, Katherine very nearly becomes his bride. But fate has other plans, as Katherine finds out when Dixon Wildhorse, a black Seminole marshal, literally snatches her from the altar. It seems that Katherine's father offered her hand in marriage to Dixon as payment for a long-standing debt. Can the two find happiness together despite their differences? Beverly Jenkins skillfully blends romance, black history, and life in the Wild West to create a lively, tender love story, which is sure to find its way into the hearts of readers everywhere.
Kate Love is an ambitious young newspaper reporter on the trail of a railroad stock swindler who has been preying onelderly Blacks. Her investigation points to Rupert Samuels,one of the wealthiest and most eligible black men in the east,but her covert efforts to get close enough to uncover thegoods on him bring her to the brink of becoming his wife.
Snatched from the altar by Dix Wildhorse, a Black SeminoleMarshal from Oklahoma's Indian country, Kate has no choice but to flee with the daring knight her father sent to rescueand wed her. Marriage had never been part of Kate's plans,and she isn't about to abandon her career to become thedutiful wife of a wild west lawman bent on wrapping her in his own protective cocoon. Determined to hold on to her independence despite the dark simmering fire Dix's bronzed,muscled embrace ignites, she challenges him at every turn.Yet even as their battle of wills intensifies, the heat of their passion blazes with unmatched fury...a wildfire of love that can only be answered in the sweet ecstasy of surrender.
Genre: Historical Romance
A Perilous Pursuit
Kate Love is an ambitious young newspaper reporter on the trail of a railroad stock swindler who has been preying onelderly Blacks. Her investigation points to Rupert Samuels,one of the wealthiest and most eligible black men in the east,but her covert efforts to get close enough to uncover thegoods on him bring her to the brink of becoming his wife.
A Promise of Pleasure
Snatched from the altar by Dix Wildhorse, a Black SeminoleMarshal from Oklahoma's Indian country, Kate has no choice but to flee with the daring knight her father sent to rescueand wed her. Marriage had never been part of Kate's plans,and she isn't about to abandon her career to become thedutiful wife of a wild west lawman bent on wrapping her in his own protective cocoon. Determined to hold on to her independence despite the dark simmering fire Dix's bronzed,muscled embrace ignites, she challenges him at every turn.Yet even as their battle of wills intensifies, the heat of their passion blazes with unmatched fury...a wildfire of love that can only be answered in the sweet ecstasy of surrender.
Genre: Historical Romance
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