Synopsis

Joe stood frozen, disbelief etched on his face, to find Emily Anderson in Virginia City. He remembered Monterey, five years past, and the wedding they had envisioned. But her father, a man of rigid principles, deemed Joe too impetuous and destroyed all his letters before Emily could read them. Despite the intervening years, their feelings for one another remained, though Emily neglected to mention that she was now Emily McPhail, wife of Deputy Marshal Wade McPhail. Wade, partnered with Marshal C