Caroline's Compass

Caroline Whitaker has spent years keeping her family together, and the westward trail only sharpens her sense of duty. With seven sisters depending on her, a wagon company to help guide, and her late father's route notes in her care, Caroline has little time for uncertainty—especially the kind caused by Thomas Reed, the careful surveyor whose maps are as steady as his quiet attention.

Thomas has always trusted measurements more than promises. Roads, rivers, and bearings make sense; people are harder to read. But as he and Caroline work side by side through flooded crossings, dangerous shortcuts, missing oxen, and the daily chaos of the Whitaker sisters, he begins to imagine a future that doesn't end with him moving on.

When a position at Fort Kearny offers Thomas the security he has always thought he wanted, Caroline must face the fear that love may ask her to let go of more than she is ready to release. And Thomas must decide whether home is a place on a map—or the woman who has taught him that even the truest compass cannot choose the road for him.

Warm, witty, and tender, Caroline's Compass is a sweet historical romance about family, trust, and finding the courage to travel west by choice.