The Passionate and the Proud — Vanessa Royall

A WILLFUL BEAUTY AND A RECKLESS ADVENTURER, THEY WERE DRAWN TOGETHER BY A DARING DRAM OF LAND AND A BOLD DESTINY OF LOVE...

BEYOND THE MAJESTIC ROCKIES LAY THE PROMISE OF LAND, THE PROMISE OF LOVE.

Beautiful Emmalee Alder was escaping a Cincinnati orphanage when a black-eyed rogue spirited her aboard a Missouri-bound riverboat. Blind to Garn Landar's true passion, disdaining his bold advances, she sold herself into servitude to join a wagon train headed West. Obsessed by a proud dream of independence, swept up in the fever of land rush, caught between farmer and rancher, she'd yet to learn that claiming land was only the first call to battle...yet to discover what she'd risk to fulfill her vision of a golden future -- with Garn and his gambler's love.