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Ellen O'Connell · Sutton Family #1

316 pageshistorical romance
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Two childhood strangers reunite on the Kansas frontier — she's broken, he's dangerous, and love was never part of the de

Content Warnings
suicidal ideationviolence/gore

Description

In 1866 on the empty Kansas prairie, two children shared a few desperate moments that changed their lives. For years afterward, each nursed a secret dream—that the other had grown into a special person—brave, good, kind.When Norah Hawkins and Caleb Sutton cross paths again, dreams die. She is a bitter, suicidal widow. He is a gunman with little conscience and few scruples. Alternately angry, repelled, and attracted, the two form an uneasy partnership to hold land she owns and he covets against a marauding neighbor. Their bargain never included love, or did it?

Sutton Family series

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