Jude Deveraux portrays the power of a woman set on a bold course for true love – and the glory of fulTHlling a magniTHcent promise.

River Lady

Handsome plantation owner Wesley Stanford would barely recall the poverty-stricken young girl named Leah Simmons who adored him from afar years agoS.Now, in an unexpected twist of fate – a chance encounter on the Virginia riverfront – he will become Leah’s reluctant husband. Determined to forge a new life in untamed Kentucky, Wesley discovers that the bride he hopes to abandon is passionate, proud, and brave – and may be the woman he cannot live without.