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The Drifter

The Drifter

Historical RomanceRomance
Pages
324
Published
2004
Language
English

Synopsis

Beau Claxton married his sweetheart Betsy the moment he returned from the war, only to lose her and their unborn child to a snakebite. Unable to stay on the farm they built together, he sets off with no destination in mind — until a wolf attack leaves him near death outside a widow's cabin. Charity Burk hears the commotion, drives off the wolf, and drags Beau to safety, setting the two on a path toward healing and an unlikely second chance at love. The second book in Lori Copeland's "Men of the Saddle" series.

Prose complexity
1/10

Vibe

HeartwarmingHopefulRomantic

Genres

Historical Romance Romance Historical Fiction

About the author

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Lori Copeland

Lori Copeland was born on 12 June 1941. She had a relatively late start in writing, breaking into publishing in 1982 when she was already forty years old. Over the next dozen years, her romance novels achieved much success, as was evidenced by her winning the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, The Holt Medallion, and Walden Books' Best Seller award. She has been inducted into the Missouri Writers Hall of Fame. Despite her success in more mainstream romantic fiction, in 1995, she decided...

Characters

Beau ClaxtonProtagonist

A cowboy left grieving after his wife and unborn child die of a snakebite; nursed back to health by Charity after a wolf attack.

Charity BurkProtagonist

A widow living alone on the frontier who rescues Beau from a wolf attack and takes him in.

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