title: Sweet Revenge
author: Deatherage, Linda
description: Set in the 1850’s Gold Rush era, beautiful and naïve, yet fiercely loyal, eighteen-year-old Ashlin O’Conner discovers her beloved brother is in a desperate situation in California. Ashlin sails on a Clipper ship from Boston to San Francisco to rescue him from certain disaster. She is unknowingly propelled into a deception she never imagined to fulfill her vow to help him at any cost—even riding with an outlaw gang of stagecoach robbers. Suddenly her world is transformed and her strong-willed spirit struggles with her passionate heart when she is kidnapped by dangerously handsome Adam Hamilton. Carried high into the Sierra Nevada mountains, she soon discovers he is the one man who sets her blood on fire with exquisite pleasure and may be the only man she will ever love. But when Ashlin discovers he is hell-bent on murdering her brother, their idyllic holiday is shattered. She is abruptly abandoned and hatred burns deep within her as she vows revenge. Ashlin’s adventures are just beginning as she pursues Adam to prevent her worst fear from happening. She is thrown into an uneasy alliance with an unscrupulous nightclub owner in San Francisco, who wants her for his own selfish purposes. But her feelings threaten to tear her apart when she is face to face with Adam again. Can she kill him, as she has sworn to do? A mansion in historic Boston, a stormy Clipper ship voyage, the exciting cities of San Francisco and Sacramento, and a romantic cabin high in the Sierra Nevada mountains set the backdrop for this tale of turbulent passion with unforgettable characters in a timeless battle of determination and desire.