num_pages: 384
description: Alternate-cover edition for ISBN 9780671019730 can be found hereOnly true love could redeem....  Victoria Waverly, noble daughter of the war-ruined South, is sold in marriage to a ruthless rancher. Honor and pride help her endure life as a wife in name only but nothing can quench her forbidden desire for hired gunman Jake Roper. His gaze is hard, but tenderness he can't hide promises to unveil to Victoria the mysteries of love.  Only true love can destroy....  Jake curses his burning need for Victoria, for he wants nothing to stand in the way of his drive to reclaim Sarratt's Kingdom -- the ranch that is his legacy and obsession. But ancient wrongs and blazing passions will bind together the aristocratic beauty and the powerful cowboy. In a bloody land war, they will fight for Jake's birthright...and seize at all costs the love that is their destiny.
language: English
title: A Lady of the West
titlecomplete: A Lady of the West (Western Ladies, #1)
genres: Historical, Western Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense, Western Romance, Adult, Westerns, Historical Romance, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 4230
places: American West
series: Western Ladies
publisher: Pocket Books