RITA Award–Winning Author: She's starting a new life on the Wyoming frontier—but is her heart ready for a new love? Tired and hungry after two days of traveling, Susanna Hopkins is just about at the end of her tether when her train finally arrives in Cheyenne. She's bound for a new life in a Western garrison town. Then she discovers she doesn't even have enough money to pay for the stagecoach! Luckily for her, the compassionate Major Joseph Randolph is heading in the same direction. As a military surgeon, Joe is used to keeping his professional distance and tries not to dwell on Susanna's understated beauty, But he's drawn to this woman who carries loss and pain equal to his own and has a heart that is just as hesitant and wary. . . . "Kelly has the rare ability to create realistic yet sympathetic characters that linger in the mind." — Library Journal
