As the mail order bride train travels toward California, Velvet Jane Dulan is about to breathe her last breath and doesn't even know it when Patrick O'Leary lays her on the bed in a very strange house. When she does awake from a fever-induced coma, she finds herself in a cabin with Dr. Hoyt Baxter, who's hateful, mean and spiteful and doesn't care if she lives or dies, as long as she's out of his house and his life as soon as possible. Which is exactly what Velvet wants, but she has to have the strength to walk out the door before she can actually do it. Velvet interfered with the doctor's self-imposed hermitship and shook the rut he had been living in all the way to the roots. He just wanted her to be gone, but every plan he made to get rid of her backfired, and he found himself stuck with the unwanted woman, untill he finally realized that he did want her to stay. However, it was too late, or wat it? This is the 2nd book in the Promised Land series. Can be read individually or as part of the series. The other books in the series are: Willow (1); Gypsy (3); Garnet (4); and Augusta (5). Great book!

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