Plains of Promise — Colleen Coble

After her husband is killed in the summer of 1866 and his real wife shows up at her door, Emmie leaves her hometown of Wabash, Indiana, and travels to Fort Laramie in the Dakota Territory as a companion to an old friend. There is no lack of male suitors. But Emmie knows better than to allow herself ever again to think a man would love her for who she is.

But even as she begins to see that all men are not the same, Emmie faces the hard choice of following her heart or honoring a promise to a dying mother.

Can this tangle be unraveled, or must Emmie accept a loveless marriage to honor her promise?