River Lady

Jude Deveraux portrays the power of a woman set on a bold course for true loveand the glory of fulfilling a magnificent promise.Handsome plantation owner Wesley Stanford would barely recall the poverty-stricken young girl named Leah Simmons who adored him from afar years ago. Now, in an unexpected twist of fatea chance encounter on the Virginia riverfronthe will become Leah's reluctant husband. Determined to forge a new life in untamed Kentucky, Wesley discovers that the bride he hopes to abandon is passionate, proud, and braveand may be the woman he cannot live without.