Jana (Prairie Roses #41)

Jana Luykan is desperate to move with her sixteen-year-old brother, Marco, to their aunt and uncle’s place in California. For the past six months since their mother’s death, she struggled to keep him out of mischief. In Council Bluffs during the final days before joining a westbound company, Jana is shocked to arrive home and find Marco bleeding and two ruffians insisting they’re joining the Luykans on the wagon train. If she doesn’t agree, she risks Marco’s participation in a saloon robber revealed. She’ll do anything to protect her brother—even pretending these men are her cousins.

Bounty hunter Rik Sanderson trails two bank robbers to Council Bluffs. This pair has proved elusive over the past month, and he’s anxious to collect the bounty. About to give up, he spots them in a group of pioneers joining a wagon train company. He gets a job as a hunter for the company, figuring he’ll wait the week until they reach Fort Kearney to turn them in there. When he realizes they are holding a woman, who he aided in a saloon scuffle, and her brother hostage, Rik vows to watch over the innocents.

By the time the wagon train reaches the fort, Jana is a wreck from keeping up the pretense of the two strangers in her camp. Mister Sanderson seems to always be watching—an action that doesn’t soothe her nerves. She’s afraid he knows of Marco’s involvement with the robbery. Rik confides his suspicions about her “cousins” and that he’ll turn them over to authorities the next day. Jana begs him not to arrest Marco. The fort commander extracts a pledge from Rik to see Jana and Marco get to California safely and performs a marriage—for propriety’s sake. Rik struggles against his long-held vow not to get personally involved but realizes he can be a good influence on the young man…an influence he never had growing up.

The grueling trip tests the strength and endurance of this makeshift family. Will the challenges pull them apart or force them to cleave to one another for survival?

Please enjoy all the Prairie Roses’ Stories!

SIXTH COLLECTION – 2024
Book 36: ZOE by Janice Cole Hopkins
Book 37: EMMA by Kaitlene Dee
Book 38: SARAH by Susan Horsnell
Book 39: AILIS by Michele Pollock Dalton
Book 40: ENID by Nancy Fraser
Book 41: JANA by Linda Carroll-Bradd
Book 42: BETH by Rena Groot
Book 43: CHLOE by Jennifer Branson
Book 44: MARIA by Anna Jensen
Book 45: VIOLA by Kaitlene Dee
Book 46: LUCY by Zina Abbott
Book 47: NORA by Caryl McAdoo
Book 48: DREA by Karen Gammons
FIFTH COLLECTION – 2023
Book 24: STELLA by Patricia PacJac Carroll
Book 25: CLARA by Zina Abbott
Book 26: EMILY by Nancy Fraser
Book 27: ANNE by Rena Groot
Book 28: IZZY by Caleb Gammons
Book 29: TINA by Donna Schlachter
Book 30: HELEN by Elissa Strati
Book 31: TILDA by Linda Carroll-Bradd
Book 32: IVY by Joi Copeland
Book 33: GRACE by Kaitlene Dee
Book 34: AVA by Caryl McAdoo
Book 35) BEE by Karen Gammons
FOURTH COLLECTION 2022
Book 12: ELLA by Nancy Fraser
Book 13: CALLI by Donne Schlachter
Book 14: LANEY by Vickie McDonough
Book 15: SABRA by Patricia PACJAC Carroll
Book 16: PEARL by Zina Abbott
Book 17: GLORY by Marisa Masterson
Book 18: ROSE by Rena Groot
Book 19: ARIA by Shonda Fischer
Book 20: ELSIE by KC Hart
Book 21: AMITY by Linda Carroll-Bradd
Book 22: AMY by Angela Lain
Book 23: JO by Caryl McAdoo
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