The deathbed promise made six years
earlier to care for Padre Tomas’ child of his heart,
compelled Don Sebastian to place her in a convent in Boston.
He hoped the nuns would curb the forceful will that
continually clashed with his own. Now, like a thunderbolt,
her unannounced arrival reveals how utterly the nuns failed
in their assigned task.
The political climate is critical. He fears that she
chose a treacherous time to return. His secrets as a former
vigilante are as numerous as the scars on his back. Keeping
the deathbed promise to guardian Chenoa is uppermost in his
mind, even as an old enemy threatens his land and life. Will
his desperate gamble destroy or ensure the future? The
choices he has to make could be fatal.
Barely ten years between Chenoa and Don Sebastian, these
two headstrong people must confront the sparks of hostility
and magnetism—or they will not survive.