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Open country

Kaki Warner

2010408 pagesabout 6–9 hours
2010
first published
  • 2010Berkley Sensation · ENGISBN 9780425234303
  • 2010DoubledayISBN 9781616645441
  • 2011Penguin Publishing Group · 408 pages · ENGISBN 9780425244555

How do you forgive a brother's betrayal? How far do you go to protect the family you love? Hank and Molly find out in OPEN COUNTRY, Book II of the 1870s family saga, the Blood Rose Trilogy. Molly McFarlane is as desperate as a woman can get. Forced to flee with her late sister's children, she must provide for her wards while outrunning the relentless tracker the children's vicious stepfather has set on their trail. Out of money and with no other options, she marries a man badly injured in a train derailment, assuming when he dies, the railroad settlement will provide the money they need to keep moving West. But there is one small problem. The man doesn't die. Hank Wilkins doesn't recall the accident he barely survived-and he certainly doesn't remember marrying Molly. But as he slowly recovers at the Wilkins ranch in New Mexico Territory, the idea of a real marriage takes hold...until his memory returns, and that fragile trust is shattered, and the tracker follows Molly to the ranch. Then things really start to unravel.

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AtmosphereGritty

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Character focusSmall ensemble

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ThemesFamily

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