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Before she can live the honest life she's always wanted, she'll be forced to weave a web of credible lies and deceive the man who loves her. Madison Jennings possessed a unique skill exploited by her father. As a scam artist, he used his daughter's talent for reading people. Her job-profile the mark for honesty. When her father's fortunes improve, he enrolls her in Miss Emma Willard's School for Young Ladies where she begins a progressive education in both academics and society. For two years, Maddie thrives under the tutelage of those who encourage her to challenge the culture's views of…mehr

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Before she can live the honest life she's always wanted, she'll be forced to weave a web of credible lies and deceive the man who loves her. Madison Jennings possessed a unique skill exploited by her father. As a scam artist, he used his daughter's talent for reading people. Her job-profile the mark for honesty. When her father's fortunes improve, he enrolls her in Miss Emma Willard's School for Young Ladies where she begins a progressive education in both academics and society. For two years, Maddie thrives under the tutelage of those who encourage her to challenge the culture's views of acceptable work for women. This happy life ends when her father suddenly withdraws her, taking her with him on a desperate flight from deadly repercussions for a scam gone wrong. On the first westbound train out of New York, Maddie realizes they are being pursued by both the Pinkerton Agency and a vindictive Sicilian family, but she knows little more of her father's crime. When a heart attack ends his life at a small station in Idaho Territory, she must change her identity, take the money and disappear. On the north-bound train to Ketchum, she meets a young doctor, David Reynolds, on the run from an attraction to a woman he can never possess, a man of integrity who values honesty as the highest virtue. Trapped in her false identity by the indiscretions of her father, Maddie cannot risk revealing her true nature, nor allow the attraction to distract her from the need to simply survive. Lies and truths collide in the climactic encounter with those who would stop at nothing to take back what is rightfully theirs. Step into this romantic adventure to meet your next favorite story weaver, award-winning author, Samantha St. Claire.
Autorenporträt
Samantha St. Claire is the pen name of an author passionate about American history and the people whose legacies are woven into the fabric of a nation. She writes these characters to life in her novels of the western frontier, their trials and triumphs. Coming from a family of pioneers, she honestly claims her roots as a Daughter of the American Revolution and descendant of a Scottish Laird. The road from college graduation led due west where teaching in a small Arizona town fulfilled childhood fantasies on multiple levels. Hiking and backpacking the canyons and desert fed her imagination with the landscapes she would use later in life as an author. Moving to California opened new vistas, but Idaho sparked her interest in the history of the magnificent central mountain ranges. Never faint of heart, her signature protagonists face the hazards of the frontier with courage, wit, and a healthy pinch of humor. Learn more at www.samanthastclaire.com.