Looking for a book

Wolf143 · Joined: 14 Mar 2012 Posts: 1

Hi I have been looking for a book I read years ago. It is an Oregon trail romance that a heroine is traveling with her dead husbands family that beats her and is mean as heck to her and everyone else and they are heading West. The heroine has a toddler son she is traveling with. There is a scout that hunts for food and keeps an eye on things that is the hero. At a point in the book she moves to another wagon to travel and the family has been kicked out of the group after trying to beat her. She ends up marrying the hero and at some point in the trip get shot and they have to leave him so he can heal and the wagon train has to move on because of the weather. Heroine is not sure if he will make it and at this point she is pregnant. They make it west and she stays with the friends she makes on the trip. She ends up having twins and the hero does make it but brother of the dead husband of the mean family has to try something before the end of the book. I have been told this is the place to ask. Do you have any idea of the title of this book?

LeeB. · Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 1221 Location: Seattle, WA

Have you checked Susan Macias's books? She now writes as Susan Mallery. Here's a link to her backlist that has the Macias titles. http://www.susanmallery.com/pbacklist.pdf
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belize · Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 45

This sounds a lot like a fairly old book, Oregon Bride, by Rosanne Bittner

Oregon Bride by Rosanne Bittner

ON A TRAIL OF DANGER, THEIR LOVE KNEW NO BOUNDS

In a land of raw winds and merciless sun, Marybeth MacKinder was a quiet, raven-haired young widow traveling westward with her former husband's family and the memories of a loveless marriage. Here she was losing the battle to protect herself and her infant son from the brutish brother-in-law who was trying to claim her as his own. Then Joshua Rivers stood before her offering her a tenderness she had never felt. He was a man of the frontier, a man both tough and gentle, whose very touch gave her a thrill she had never known. As the wagon train pushed across a continent, Marybeth would see new horizons opening up before her and feel a passion-bred courage to face both danger and a new destiny. But the joy she felt in Joshua's arms would be threatened by savage jealousy -- and a bullet ... for the journey of her heart had just begun.