A Return West by Kari August

A Return West

By Kari August
Regular Price: $5.99
Today: $0.99
Deal Ends: Tue 2nd December

Description:

A 2025 Global Book Award Winner for Historical Romance!Based on true events . . .As teenagers, growing up in Wyoming, Caroline and Row clashed as much as the jagged peaks of the Tetons. Now years later, it is the Roaring Twenties, and Caroline is an unhappy New Yorker, desperate for a way to support herself so she can escape her mistake of a marriage. Meanwhile, Row is seeking to prove himself at a small-town bank, after a failed marriage of his own, and a haunting defeat as a fighter pilot in the recent Great War. He would like nothing better than to find a new wife, have some kids, and finally settle into what has become an elusive happily ever after. The last person he has in mind for that is troublesome Caroline from his past.Yet as fate would have it, Caroline and Row are both hired by a well-off financier to work as a team, buying land in Jackson Hole. Besides struggling with stubborn landowners, unwilling to sell, and an unforgiving, rough terrain, the battle between them resumes full force. Like revolving magnets, they find themselves drawn to each other one moment and repelled the next. Complicating the situation further is only Caroline knows the secret reason they are purchasing this land.Set during the exciting Jazz Age, A Return West, explores in vivid detail not only this thrilling decade in American history, but also the journey of those trying for another chance in this suddenly modern, new world.

“Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in.“

Neil Gaiman
The View from the Cheap Seats