Ella Barnwell

Kentucky is known as the “dark and bloody ground”—yet at sunset, its green valley seems almost like paradise. Then a pale, finely dressed stranger steps from the woods, a rifle on his shoulder and trouble in his eyes.

In the autumn of 1781, cabins spread across the frontier near Lexington, far from the safety of the settlers’ stations. Ella Barnwell’s story unfolds in this beautiful but perilous country, where the arrival of Algernon Reynolds, a young man with a troubled past, brings questions no peaceful landscape can quiet. Romance and hardship take shape amid the risks of pioneer life, where help may be far away and trust hard won. What has brought Algernon into the wilderness—and what will Ella discover about the stranger?

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