Book excerpt: Forbidden love on the frontier.... Hope Tucker is content staying in her hometown of Lamar, Missouri, focusing on her life as a schoolteacher instead of finding love. But when she hears the truth about her parents' romance during the Civil War, how her mother Cordia set out to find her father Will after a deadly battle, Hope is determined to have that sort of adventure as well. Accepting a teaching position in a frontier town in Texas isn't quite what she was expecting--there are no marauders or gunslingers--but there is one man with a shady past, and when the entire town tells her to stay away from Judah Lawless, Hope finds herself drawn to him. Is Judah dangerous, or will Hope finally find the romance she's been looking for? Cordia's Hope: A Story of Love on the Frontier is a standalone clean romance novel. You don't have to have already read Cordia's Will: A Civil War Story of Love and Loss to enjoy Cordia's Hope.