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When a sudden tornado transports suburban Anne Faraday back to 1851 Wyoming, she finds herself in a rugged, sun‑baked landscape of blue skies and sagebrush. Rescued by the stoic pioneer Luke McCord, Anne joins a wagon train bound for Oregon. Together they face frontier dangers and shared hardships, and amid that wilderness a love blooms that defies the constraints of time.
First publish date: 1999
Genre: Western Fiction/Western Romance
Authors: Betty Brooks
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