Caroline and the Raider

Synopsis

Holding her lovely head high, Wyoming schoolmistress Caroline Chalmers did what no lady should: she marched right into the local saloon to see the dashing and reckless Guthrie Hayes. Worse still, she went to ask him for help. She needed the former Confederate raider to plan a jailbreak to rescue her fiancé, Seaton Flynn, from the hangman's noose. An orphan by spinster sisters, Caroline was prepared do almost anything to save her beloved Seaton.

So why did her breath suddenly become a shivery sigh when she looked into Hayes's twinkling green eyes? Too late Caroline knew how perilous her request really was, for this strong and daring ex-soldier would refuse her nothing no matter how dangerous...but first he intended to teach her everthing about the power of a man's love, beginning with a shameless odyssey to ectasy in his arms....

Concludes Miller's Orphan Train trilogy, which began with Lily and the Major and continued with Emma and the Outlaw. After Confederate raider Guthrie Hayes refuses to help Caroline's fiance from the hangman's noose, Caroline helps Seaton to escape on her own--and Seaton promptly deserts her. Original.