The Cripple Creek Bride — Emma Ashwood

Unfounded rumors stalk Scarlett, because no good deed ever goes unpunished. Scarlett is banished from her family home in the city, to spend an undetermined period in exile in a dusty small town called Cripple Creek with family friends whose son tormented her throughout her childhood. Could life be any worse? Well yes, it turns out life is a slippery slope. Small town Colorado is not punishment enough, so society serves Scarlett a healthy dose of misery in the form of correspondence from home. She knows not where to turn or from whence her help might come. Can Scarlett be saved from this social quagmire, or will all who know her simply allow her to be swallowed up by the quicksand of scandal and conjecture, with no chance of reprieve?