by Zina Abbott
Once Lulu, now known as the more respectable Louisa Parmley, starts working for Gus in his kitchen, she proves that Beth was right to take a chance on her. She has every intention of making a good life for her new daughter. But can she also hope to find happiness with Gus? And will Gus be able to accept her and baby Sophie Ann as his? Love was never in the cards for Gus, but Louisa dreams of happiness with the stoic man, and Beth is determined to bring them together through HER INDEPENDENT SPIRIT. AMAZON LINK
HAUNTED BY LOVE
Beautiful Hazel Jessup arrives in Bridgeport, California, after being turned out by her guardian and sent across the country to join her sister. But Hazel has misgivings. She hasn’t had any response to the letters she’s sent to her sister for several months. When Hazel arrives at Hiram Leavitt’s inn, things take a turn for the worse when the man who’s been hired to see her safely to her destination betrays her. She is given a room she must share with another occupant—a specter named Charlotte, who only Hazel can communicate with.
Luther Caldwell prepares to leave Bridgeport with a wagonload of supplies for the mining town of Lundy. Hiram Leavitt begs him to take Hazel with him and reunite her with her sister. Though Luther has misgivings about transporting a young lady to Lundy on his freight wagon, he eventually agrees. Pretty Hazel laughs at his jokes and shares her own fanciful tale about an encounter with a ghost, the famed White Lady. As they draw closer to their destination, Luther becomes serious about only one thing—insuring that he wins Hazel’s heart. When she smiles at him, he knows he’s destined to be HAUNTED BY LOVE.
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The sixth book in the Eastern Sierra Brides 1884 series:
Luck Joy Bride
By Zina Abbott
Luke McDaniels, known to the locals in the Eastern Sierra-Nevada towns as “Shorty” Mackey, thought he was signing up as a cowboy for the fall round-up when Charley Jardine hired him. He was gathering up cattle, all right, but Charley was rustling, rebranding, and selling the stolen herds. When Luke tries to claim what is owed him and break free, Charley holds his pay, threatening to name him as the rustler behind the missing livestock.
After Charley overhears that a large sum of money will be traveling by stagecoach with a Chinese prostitute back to her tong owner in San Francisco, he comes up with a plan and hires known bad man and fellow cattle rustler, Tex Wilson. Charley promises Luke he will pay what is owed him and cut him free—after one last job.
After her father died in China, Loi Ling was sold by her uncle who had not approved of her parents’ decisions to stop binding her feet and educate her at the English missionary school. Loi is destined to work as a prostitute to pay her passage to America. She has been sent to Lundy to service the male Chinese population—and the occasional white American. Lundy is dying due to the May Lundy Mine closure, and now, her tong owner in San Francisco has ordered her and her earnings be returned to Chinatown.
Shorty waits in the camp hidden in the mountains south of Bodie that he had been ordered to set up for a long stay. Only after Tex dumps the small Chinese woman at his feet does Luke learn just what Charley has in mind for his last job before winter sets in. Can Luke protect Loi from her two captors and the tongs who want her back? Can he protect his own heart from the beautiful, exotic woman who has nowhere else to turn for help?