num_pages: 306
description: Wyoming Territory 1885. On a train in the middle of nowhere a young woman suddenly collapses. Fellow passenger Dr. Robert Devlin a widower traveling with his five-year-old daughter responds immediately to the medical emergency. What he finds when he examines his new patient both shocks and outrages him and soon he is tangled up in her no-way-out life-or-death plight. Teresa Rutledge has taken her toddler son and run for their lives. Fleeing her wealthy cruelly abusive husband knowing there is nowhere they will be safe for long she is at the end of her strength and at the end of her rope. Determined to protect Tess and her child Rob takes them home to his sister Annie and her husband former cavalry Captain Michael Cantrell. As Tess regains her health she and Rob fall passionately in love. But she is trapped in a brutal marriage and on a desperate flight from a powerful violent man determined never to let her go. This much-anticipated sequel to best-selling Orange Rose Award finalist Terms of Surrender lets readers catch up with their favorite characters from the original story while also being a wonderfully suspenseful emotional and exciting stand-alone novel in its own right.
language: English
title: Terms of Engagement
publisher: None