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Lexy Tate, one of America’s pioneering women doctors, must adapt to frontier life when she sets up her practice in an abandoned brothel and delivers a calf in a ramshackle barn. With her young daughter Krista’s health depending on San Joaquin sunlight, Lexy is determined to build a safe home for them both. Yet the past resurfaces when Jake Westfield—her former love who abandoned her and their unborn child—reappears. Faced with old passion and dangerous choices, Lexy must decide between personal desire and the future she has built for herself and her daughter.
First publish date: 1998
Genre: Western Fiction/Western Romance
Authors: Jane Bonander
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