Harrison finally made it big after 4 years toiling away in the mines. His claim is producing, and his crew is loyal. So he sent word and money to bring his fiancee Jenny to the frontier. Instead, he got Retta, Jenny's sister, and her young daughter Adeline. Jenny's got consumption and is not long for this world. But when the only woman he ever loved begged him for forgiveness and marry her sister instead, what can he do? // Retta was impregnated (not by choice), but the town treated her as a fallen woman. With no prospects of marriage, she took her sister's dying wish to marry a man she barely remembered. The hard miner that greeted her was not the kind and honorable man her sister described. But they did marry and live together. But can they learn to love each other, esp. when an evil man in town decided he wants the young wife and one of Harrison's mines?
Harrison carried the strong silent type a bit too far, and the book has way too much guilt (except the evil guy, who has none). Characters are relatively shallow. Plotting is not bad, but pretty trope-ish.
Category: Historical Western
Overall Rating: 3/5
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