His Promise True

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Maggie Boon marries John David McKellar for one reason—to escape what is sure to be a life of poverty and despair if she’s forced to marry the man her Pa picked for her on Pine Mountain. She doesn’t love John David any more than he loves her. But at least he has a plan to get their quick marriage annulled and help her find paid work in town so she’ll never have to go back home. Nothing goes as planned, though, especially once they start to fancy each other. When John David proposes they should stay married, Maggie happily agrees. He promises they’ll leave Tennessee to start a new life together on a grant of free land in Mexican Texas. And he promises that if ever Maggie is miserable with him, he’ll give her that annulment. Promises made in a cozy loft prove hard to keep on a rough frontier trail. Bad luck and bad choices soon leave them broke and stranded in desolate Arkansas Territory, and Maggie is determined to hold John David to his promise. But which promise?