Award-Winning Stand-Alone Novella
Panic and anxiety riddle her after the mugging. He’s the ranch manager of the equine therapy center. Will their history help or hinder her recovery?
When Dianne Jacobson returns to Wichita Falls, Texas after a fifteen-year absence, the last person she expects to see is her first love. Especially while she’s an emotional wreck. His hot and cold responses when they’re together make her wonder if he still feels the same about her or if he’s playing games to get back at her for leaving.
Kip always knew he and Dianne were destined to be together and has never stopped loving her despite the pain her desertion caused. Can he trust that she won’t run away once she’s healthy and whole again?
When Dianne’s ex-husband tracks her down it puts not only their newfound relationship, but their very lives, in danger.
Will Dianne’s destiny slip from her grasp before she’s even found it?
Book 1 in The Journey Series
Determined to keep a vow made to her dying father, independent eighteen-year-old Rebecca Pierce sets out on a wagon train on the Oregon Trail in 1845 with her mother. Rebecca is strong and takes on a leadership role.
Zachary Miller is traveling alone with nothing more than what he can carry and his horse. He is assigned to help Rebecca and her mother from the first day on the trail. Zachary falls fast for Rebecca but she is conflicted about her growing feelings.
When Rebecca is kidnapped by an obsessive man, she is left injured, in pain, depressed, and losing the belief she had in herself.
Zachary is angry and wants revenge. He feels like there is nothing he can do to help Rebecca although he tries to do all he can.
Will their newly developed relationship recover and allow them to regain their growing love?
Companion Novella to The Journey Series
Companion Novella to The Journey Series
Will Rebecca and Zachary’s dreams and plans come to fruition despite the struggles they face in a new land?
Rebecca Pierce and Zachary Miller began the arduous journey on the Oregon Trail from Independence, Missouri as strangers but wound up in Journey’s End, Oregon Territory betrothed. Snow and ice, rumors of a threat from their past, and miscommunication separate the couple, nearly ending their relationship and Rebecca’s life. Plans for Christmas festivities and their wedding celebration are jeopardized by what could be an immovable wedge.
Will Rebecca and Zachary overcome the obstacles, move forward with their marriage and settle in the cabin they built overlooking a flowing stream and pine forest?
If you love Historical romance stories filled with trials, tribulations and triumph, get Winter at Journey’s End, a companion novella in Winona Bennett Cross’s The Journey Series, and celebrate life with these characters all over again!
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Katie's Journey ~ Book 2 in The Journey Series
James and Elizabeth Miller and their daughters Katie, Hazel, Helen, and Ruth arrive at Journey’s End eager to see their son and brother, Zachary and his new wife, Rebecca.
Katie is 18, independent, and dreams only of becoming a schoolteacher. She isn’t interested in marrying or having children. She knows her father is against her taking a job but doesn’t expect an outcry from several members of the community.
Katie believes in her dream and her abilities. She is able to convince the town council and her father she should be given a chance when the current teacher approves of her.
In time she is able to convince most of the community she is not only capable, but good at her job. The children look forward to school and are eager to learn.
In time, Katie’s real dream comes to fruition.
Aaron's Journey ~ Book 3 in The Journey Series
Aaron Smith was twelve years old in 1845 when he crossed the country with his parents when they agreed to travel with Rebecca and Sarah Pierce and help them handle their second wagon and the livestock.
Now, at the age of 17 he hires on as a scout to ride east and return with a new group of hopeful emigrants.
Traveling alone he dwells on the murder of his mother, the cruelty and disappearance of his father, the kindness of Sarah and Rebecca Pierce when they took him in as their own.
He learned to have hope and honor despite the tragedies and uncertainties in the early years of his life.
Now, he has to learn to be a man and confront the one who sired him.