Wyoming

 Colleen Coble writes 4 stories of romance in Wyoming Forts.in 1868. 

After being in prison Andersonville during the civil war Liutenant   Rand  Cambel thought Sarah would wait for him, so they could marry. Now she has an engagement ring on. Gotten a few  weeks before.    She says Ben saw your body dead, Rand said I suppose you did not get the many letters I sent to your either  Rand likes Army life the adventure, an sense of doing something worthwhile with ones life. This is in WHERE LEADS THE HEART 

Fort Laramie Wyoming Territory is site of book two PLAINS OF PROMISE.

Four Novels of love in frontier forts right after the civil war.

Emmie is Bens sister, she feels the Indians might be savages but is seems not as. they surrounded the fort with there tepees. She found out her dead husband had a wife and was still married and now she is caring a child that would be illegitimate, due to her “husband’s” lies. Isaac and Emmie fall in love but she promised a friend she would marry her husband Jake, if she died in childbirth. They talk to God and Jake to see if he wants a loveless marriage with Emmie.

THE HEART ANSWERS book three in novel .Fort Bridger and Jessie Du Bois cares for little Fannie when  Ellen is very sick with Cholera. So when she dies the child has no parents left.   Jessie and Clay Cole have a romance.  In 1867 Life was different than modern Army camps... One time the camp lacks housing and Jessie has to have her mother and Uncle Samuel live with her , having most of there possessions in a near by tent.

Book four  is To Love  A Stranger   Ruth the baby of Bessie Randall who loves Jaspser Mendenhall, who was deceived into marrying her by proxy. They decide to let God lead them. She has to learn to cope with the primitive life at Fort Bridger  was way different from Boston Massachusetts in 1868.

Interesting interplay of characters in the 4 books in one.