The Bride of Red Arrow
She crossed an ocean to marry a gentleman. The man waiting for her in Arizona is everything she was promised. The man watching from the shadows is not.
Arizona Territory, 1885.
Charlotte Bellamy has always trusted numbers more than people. Numbers don't flatter, charm or lie-and after her father's death leaves her family facing financial ruin, they offer precious little comfort.
So Charlotte does the sensible thing.
She agrees to cross the Atlantic and marry Elias Thornton, a wealthy, respectable businessman in Tucson. His letters are thoughtful. His manners are impeccable. His home is magnificent. He even remembers exactly how she takes her tea.
Everything is perfect.
Perhaps a little too perfect.
The gates are guarded. The servants are frightened. Women connected to the household have disappeared. And a stranger at the Tucson market gives Charlotte one blunt warning:
Do not sign anything.
The Army calls him Red Arrow.
An Apache scout accustomed to being mistrusted by both sides, he has spent months searching for proof of a scheme that has stolen land, destroyed families and left dead men behind. Charlotte Bellamy was never supposed to become part of it.
But her father's name is written into the heart of the deception.
When Charlotte's questions make her dangerous, Red Arrow is forced to take a desperate risk to keep her alive. Stranded with a man she has every reason to fear, Charlotte must decide for herself who is telling the truth.
Because Red Arrow may have taken her from the man she intended to marry...
...but he may also be the first man who has never tried to deceive her.
As danger closes in and suspicion gives way to reluctant trust, Charlotte discovers that the heart is the one thing she cannot measure-and the man she was taught not to trust may be the only man worthy of it.
The Bride of Red Arrow is Book One in the Brides of Scandal series, a passionate historical mail-order bride romance featuring a clever English heroine, a guarded Apache scout, slow-burn attraction, frontier danger, mystery and intrigue, and a hard-earned happily-ever-after.
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