Bittersweet

Coulter Bancroft returned to his northwestern Ohio farm seeking peace after the battlefields of the Civil War. Instead, he discovered his father dead, the farm and his sister's guardianship dependent on his ability to produce an heir and his sweetheart married to someone else. When Amelia Strong, running from the unimaginable, collapses in front of his horse, he seeks no choice but to take her home to recover. Amelia's offer to marry him and bear a child in exchange for a fresh start seemed a perfect solution for both of them. They never imagined that the man to whom she pledged her love, a man declared dead in battle, would create a game of cat-and-mouse that could only end in death.