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Jude Deveraux portrays the power of a woman set on a bold course for true love--and the glory of fulfilling a magnificent promise.

Handsome plantation owner Wesley Stanford would barely recall the poverty-stricken young girl named Leah Simmons who adored him from afar years ago. Now, in an unexpected twist of fate--a chance encounter on the Virginia riverfront--he will become Leah's reluctant husband. Determined to forge a new life in untamed Kentucky, Wesley discovers that the bride he hopes to abandon is passionate, proud, and brave--and may be the woman he cannot live without.