Book Three of The James River Trilogy. "Handsome plantation owner Wesley Stanford would barely recall the poverty-stricken young girl named Leah Simmons who adored him from afar years ago?.Now, in an unexpected twist of fate -- a chance encounter on the Virginia riverfront -- he will become Leah's reluctant husband. Determined to forge a new life in untamed Kentucky, Wesley discovers that the bride he hopes to abandon is passionate, proud, and brave -- and may be the woman he cannot live without."

I believe that I read this quite some time after Conterfeit Lady, and didn't realize they were connected. :) The makeover scenes with Nicole and Regan were fun. I've always been partial to pioneers in wagon trains stories. I enjoyed this!