River Lady

Jude Deverauxportrays the power of a woman set on a bold course for true love -- and the glory of fulÞlling a magniÞcent promise.River LadyHandsome plantation owner Wesley Stanford would barely recall the poverty-stricken young girl named Leah Simmons who adored him from afar years ago?.Now, in an unexpected twist of fate -- a chance encounter on the Virginia riverfront -- he will become Leah's reluctant husband. Determined to forge a new life in untamed Kentucky, Wesley discovers that the bride he hopes to abandon is passionate, proud, and brave -- and may be the woman he cannot live without.

Jude Deveraux is the author of twenty-seven New York Times bestsellers, including The Summerhouse, Temptation, High Tide, The Blessing, An Angel for Emily, Legend, and A Knight in Shining Armor. Her next novel, Forever..., is forthcoming in paperback from Pocket Books. She began writing in 1976, and to date there are more than thirty-five million copies of her books in print. Ms. Deveraux lives in Connecticut.