Edwina Parkhurst, spinster - Patricia Lucas White

"A strong love story, with the realistic and gritty brutality of the Wild West." - Romantic Times
Talented writer Edwina Parkhurst begins an adventurous, real-life journey when she accompanies her sister, Olivia, and her nieces to visit Olivia's abusive husband in Oregon.
To provide a "proper" escort for them, Edwina disguises herself as a boy. When outlaws abduct Olivia and the girls, gunfighter Tal Jones is wounded trying to prevent it.
Nearly blinded, he is rescued by Edwina.
Alone together in the wilderness, Tal teaches "Ed" the art of survival, and Edwina begins to recognise in Tal the kind of hero she has been searching for and writing about in her "sinful" dime novels...