Beautiful, willful Emily Davenport lives the life of a privileged debutante in Victorian Boston.  She is the center of her father’s world and the heiress to a controlling interest in her family’s transcontinental banking empire.  When her father dies suddenly, Emily learns the true nature of the man she loves and the hard truth of reputations in Boston society.

Betrayed, devastated and grieving her father, Emily is forced to flee scandal and travel to San Francisco to live with her grandfather, the legendary patriarch of Davenport & Harrington Bank & Trust.  Her grandfather sends his best security man to meet her in Chicago and guard her on the journey across the western territories.  In his care, she survives a violent train robbery and evades the outlaws seeking to kidnap her and hold her for ransom. If her grandfather’s hired gun can protect her as they cross the final mountains to safety in California,  the question becomes who will protect her heart from him?

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I’ll publish a new chapter of my novel, UNION PACIFIC, each Friday beginning on Friday, December 31, 2010.  I hope you enjoy it.  (Fingers and toes crossed, stars wished on, pennies tossed into fountains, dandelions blown, prayers said.)