Before the Dawn

Novella Contemporary Romance Women's Fiction

Language: English

David Mackenzie was the most capable mining engineer in Colorado — until a cave-in left him blind and consumed by guilt over the workers he lost. Karen Worth refuses to give up on the man she loves, even as he pushes her away. The first novella in the Colorado Dawn trilogy, set in an 1880s Colorado mining town.

Prose complexity: 3/10

Hopeful Emotional

Forced Proximity Slow Burn

Contemporary Romance Women's Fiction

Erica Vetsch

Erica Vetsch is a bestselling, award-winning American author of Christian historical romance. She has written the Thorndike & Swann Regency Mysteries and the Serendipity & Secrets Regency romance series for Kregel Publications, plus the Of Cloaks & Daggers series and numerous novellas for Barbour/Heartsong Presents, including the Colorado Dawn trilogy and entries in the Brides of the West series. A former high school history teacher, she set the career aside to homeschool her own children and wo...