His Wagon Train Sweetheart
Free Novella · Walton Valley, Book 0.5
Life on the Santa Fe Trail is hard and lonely, especially for a girl named George. She’s spent her whole life learning how to survive it, while Eli Mitchell is passing through on his way to the respectable future he has planned. Neither expects one accident on the trail to change everything.
Georgianna “George” Walton has never known anything but the trail—raised in a saddle by a father who taught her to survive, never to settle. She’s spent her life insisting she doesn’t need a home, a family, or any of the things other women seem to want. Lately, though, she’s begun to wonder whether she’s been lying to herself.
Elijah “Eli” Mitchell knows exactly what he wants. Reach Santa Fe, establish the medical practice waiting for him there, and build a respectable life entirely on his own terms. But when George’s father is badly injured on the trail, Eli can’t abandon the cantankerous old man—or his fiercely independent daughter. With Harry unable to travel, they leave the wagon train behind while Eli tends his injuries.
As Harry slowly recovers, Eli’s mother takes George under her wing, teaching her the domestic skills she never had the chance to learn from her own mother and introducing her to a faith and family life George has never known. For the first time, George begins to glimpse the kind of home she’s spent years pretending she doesn’t want.
George has never needed rescuing, and she has no intention of becoming the sort of proper lady a doctor ought to marry. But Eli doesn’t seem to want her to change. The more time he spends with the unconventional woman who can outride him, outshoot him, and overturn every expectation he has about his future, the harder it becomes to imagine leaving her behind.
Harry’s injuries won’t keep them together forever. Once he is fit to travel, Eli will be free to continue to Santa Fe and the carefully planned future awaiting him there. George has spent her whole life moving on before she could put down roots—but this time, walking away could cost them both the home they never knew they wanted.
Perfect for readers who love:
★ Opposites Attract ★ Fish Out of Water ★ Found Family ★ Faith & Redemption Journey ★ Frontier Settlement Origin Story ★ Clean & Closed-Door Romance
His Wagon Train Sweetheart is a clean Christian historical novella—the prequel that opens the Walton Valley series, and has a happy ending you can trust.