Where the Four Winds Collide

Adeline Buckley escapes her abusive father only to find herself in a brothel, on a stagecoach to the untamed west, then married to a stranger, in that order. Plotting another escape becomes harder the more she gets to know her new husband. Jackson Pruitt didn't expect a secretive mail order bride to show up the same week cattle rustlers absconded with a large part of his herd. The bigger surprise was the loveliness of the woman. Why would a beauty like her need to travel so far to marry? Jackson and Adeline learn that secrets and marriage do not go hand-in-hand when both of their pasts comes knocking, and they have to come to grips with the reality that sometimes trust comes only after you lose it all. ** About the Author Hildie McQueen is always running into a story, whether at the grocery store or at a baseball game, people seem comfortable sharing some very interesting things about themselves. Those stories end up intertwined with her imagination in her writing. Hildie pens contemporary, historical and paranormal romance. Happily married to a wonderful super hero, she resides in the sunny south U.S. JOAN by Michelle Levigne Quarry Hall Book One Joan escaped her terrorist mother at fourteen, and didn't know what an "ordinary" life was until she settled in Tabor Heights, seeking the baby sister their mother tried to kill one summer. After four years, she had made a new life, and refused to run away and start over, no matter how many threats came breathing down her neck. She had friends now, and she wasn't going to let anyone hurt them or drive her away from them. After a series of catastrophes brought her to the breaking point, she received an invitation to visit Quarry Hall, home of the Arc Foundation, and run by a man who claimed to be her father. Joan went to see what he had to say. And despite all her self-preservation instincts, she grew to want to be part of Quarry Hall. But did she dare let go all her secrets, her pain, her shame? It wasn't that she couldn't believe in God -- but could God believe in her? LEARN MORE AT (http://www.MLevigne.com) www.MLevigne.com