Promise Me
Laura Devries, Laura Gordon

He had destroyed her home, her family, her way of life. The Civil War was over, but Miranda Dare was just beginning a war of her own. The former Southern belle couldn't deny help to a wounded man, but once she'd nursed Yankee Captain Clayton Sloane's wounds, she pocketed his gold--and ran. Caught in the act, she was hauled into the Fort Leavenworth stockade--then forced to join the rugged soldier on a wagon train west.
He conquered her stubborn Southern heart....
Clay Sloane was headed west, determined to put the war, and the army, behind him--when the blue-eyed blond beauty ignited the battle anew. Miranda Dare was the South incarnate--in all its pride and fighting glory. When Clay Sloane was ordered to lead a perilous trip to Denver--and escort a general's orphaned nieces and nephew west to safety--Miranda was by his side, temptation and salvation, stirring passions he thought he'd conquered long ago. . .