Open country - Kaki Warner

Molly McFarlane is desperate, forced to flee to the frontier with her late sister's children. While outrunning the trackers her stepfather set on her trail, she marries a dying man in the assumption that his insurance settlement will provide for them. But the man doesn't die - and when Molly ends up caring for the man and his own family, she finds that even the best of lives can emerge from the worst of circumstances. A historical romance truly epic in scale, Open Country follows the first novel of the Blood Rose trilogy, Pieces of Sky (Berkley, 2011).