Publisher's Synopsis
He's trying to escape his past. She's trying to escape her present. Charlie feels life is going on without her. She's trapped in a loveless marriage, stuck on the plains, away from the mountains she loves, and now her father and her best friend are joining a wagon train to go west, leaving her behind with her husband. Already chafing at the expectations he places on her to act like a proper lady, Charlie longs to break away and fly to freedom. Dirks Braelon is on the run from his life as a hired gun in Texas. He's ready to hang up his holster, stop killing for a living and try to find some peace for his soul. He may be ready to leave his old life behind, but the people he knew then may not let him. To find happiness, Charlie and Dirks have to reach back into a story from Charlie's father and find out the true sacrifice of the Sage Hen.
