num_pages: 372
description: With fates bound by a shared tragedy a reformed gambler from the Colorado Territory and a Southern Belle bent on breaking free from society's expectations must work together to achieve their dreamsprovided that the truth doesn't tear them apart first. Sylas Rutledge the new owner of the Northeast Line Railroad invests everything he has into this venture partly for the sake of the challenge. But mostly to clear his father's name. One man holds the key to Sy's successGeneral William Giles Harding of Nashville's Belle Meade Plantation. But Harding is champagne and thoroughbreds and Sy Rutledge is beer and bullocks. Sy needs someone to help him maneuver his way through Nashville's society and when he meets Alexandra Jamison he quickly decides he's found his tutor. But he soon discovers that the very train accident his father is blamed for causing is what killed Alexandra's fianc and shattered her world. Spurning an arranged marriage by her father Alexandra instead pursues her passion for teaching at Fisk University the first freedmen's university in the United States. But familyand Nashville societydo not approve and she soon finds herself cast out from both. Through connections with the Harding family Alexandra and Sy become unlikely allies. And despite her first impressions Alexandra gradually finds herself coming to respect and even care for this man. But how can she when her heart is still spoken for?Sylas Rutledge will risk everything to win over the woman he loves. What he doesn't count on is having to wager her heart to do it.
language: English
title: To Wager Her Heart
publisher: Zondervan