Trail Of Storms — Marsha Ward

After her sister suffers a brutal attack, Jessie Bingham and her family flee post-Civil War Virginia and endure a perilous trek to New Mexico Territory. When she hears her former sweetheart, James Owen, has taken a wife, Jessie accepts Ned Heizer's marriage proposal on the condition they wait until journey's end to wed. But then Jessie encounters James again . . . and he isn't married now! In her third novel about the Owen family, award winning author Marsha Ward brings Jessie Bingham and James Owen back together in a tangle of conflicting values and emotions, and high adventure.