National Park Brides

Heather Perry has always resented the government’s hold over the Hot Springs Reservation, where even long-time residents and business owners must lease their property from the government rather than own it. When Anson English arrives seeking treatment in the bath houses that make up the core of the reserve, Heather is drawn to the man in the wheelchair and watches his progress toward healing. But when she discovers his role in preventing Hot Springs citizens from owning their property, she feels betrayed. Can she ever forgive him, or will the conflict divide them forever?

The Smoky Mountains are her world until one stranger changes everything. When surveyors arrive to map out land for the proposed national park, Gwenda meets Adam Wagoner, the outsider sent to assess the very ridges and hollows her people have fought to keep. She dislikes him on the spot. He’s too tied to the forces threatening everything she knows and loves. But Adam turns out to be different from what she expected. He keeps returning to the valley, listening to her father, helping neighbors, and learning mountain ways.