Only His Kiss (Promises, a Romance)

Sonja Thorseth doesn’t want to be a nuisance to the man with the burnt- amber eyes. She simply wants to follow him. Even if it means following a wagon train down the Santa Fe Trail alone, on foot. Thaddeus Staley—the man with the distinctive eyes—plans to establish a new life and medical practice in Santa Fe. His plans don’t include an impetuous woman with a badly bruised knee and a passel of secrets. But Sonja couldn’t help it. She had to run, for she couldn’t stay. Not when Papa might discover what she did. Not when it might happen again. Let Papa go on to the newness of the Oregon Territory without her. Let him remember her as she was . . . before. Thaddeus is the victim of himself and blames another. Sonja is the victim of another and blames herself. They will learn God settles all such condemnations with grace.