Jordan's Gift

A hardened mine owner becomes a tender protector for a woman defying the only life she's ever known.

Edward A. Stratton is a no-nonsense, wealthy mine owner. He has little tolerance for most people, so he dodges them at every opportunity. He survives as a loner in a secluded small town in the Colorado high country. Until the day he walks into the General Store and sees the fiery Jordan.

Jordan Calhoun is a Denver socialite who is running from a broken engagement and the conventions of high society. Visiting her aunt in the sleepy town of Nederland, Colorado, seems like the perfect escape to give her ex-fiancé time to get over his anger and disgrace. Little does she know her life is about to change when she meets the imposing and elusive Edward.

While Edward spends his days building a grand mansion he never intended to inhabit, Jordan fills the empty spaces in his lonely existence. But jilted fiancés have a way of not staying gone, especially when they are the archrival of the man who sets your world ablaze. Edward will use his every resource to protect the woman he loves from the life she left behind.

In this tastefully explicit historical romance, a runaway bride and a reclusive mine owner discover that the greatest treasures aren't found in a mine, but in a love they never thought they'd find.

This is a tender historical romantic novella with a guaranteed happily-ever-after.

Jordan's Gift is the first prequel in the Thunder on the Mountain series. While it can be enjoyed as a standalone, the story of the Madeline Manor legacy is best experienced by reading Jordan's Gift (Prequel 1) first, and then Willow's Secret (Prequel 2)