When Trace Riley finds the smoldering ruins of a small wagon train, he recognizes the hand behind the attack as the same group who left him as sole survivor years ago. Living off the wilderness since then, he’d finally carved out a home and started a herd–while serving as a self-appointed guardian of the trail, driving off dangerous men. He’d
hoped those days were over, but the latest attack shows he was wrong.
Deborah Harkness saved her younger sister and two toddlers during the attack, and now finds herself at the mercy of her rescuer. Trace offers the only shelter for miles around, and agrees to take them in until she can safely continue. His simple bachelor existence never anticipated kids and women in the picture and their arrival is unsettling–yet enticing.
Working to survive the winter and finally bring justice to the trail, Trace and Deborah find themselves drawn together–yet every day approaches the moment she’ll leave forever.
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From: Rebecca Maney
Book Title: The Accidental Guardian
Book Author: Mary Connealy
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" . . .a voice crying out in the wilderness. . . "
That voice had been Trace Riley when he was only fifteen years hold, the sole survivor of a wagon train massacre near Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Struggling to survive, he became a self-appointed guardian; carefully protecting others from bandits as their groups passed through the treacherous mountain passes. Ten years have gone by and the nightmare repeats itself, only this time Trace becomes the accidental guardian of two lovely young ladies and two small children.
What were they going to do? Everyone else in their wagon train had been brutally shot down in cold blood and the evidence burned. Deborah Harkness and her sister Gwen barely escaped with their lives when their two young charges had demonstrated a providential urge to use the wilderness "facilities" upon awakening. When they happen upon a seasoned cowboy, it never occurs to them how personal their experience might be to him. Now Trace is determined to not only provide his make-shift family with shelter for the winter, he is insisting on hunting down the three yellow-bellied killers responsible for their plight, only Deb may be in mortal danger; she can recognize one of their faces.
Written with the sort of witty cadence that only Mary Connealy can provide, "The Accidental Guardian" is guaranteed to entertain and delight!
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