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Beyond the Desert Sands (Love on the Santa Fe) - cover

Beyond the Desert Sands (Love on the Santa Fe)

Tracie Peterson

Publisher: Bethany House Publishers

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Summary

Can she reconcile who she's become with who she's meant to be?   
 
Accustomed to an opulent life with her aunt, the last thing twenty-five-year-old Isabella Garcia wants is to celebrate Christmas in her parents' small silver-mining desert town, leaving her handsome beau, Diego Morales, behind in California. Adding insult to injury, she must bear the company of Aaron Bailey, the disapproving Santa Fe Railroad businessman her father has sent to escort her home, who clearly finds her spoiled.  
 
But she is surprised to see how much the town of Silver Veil has grown and how fragile her father's health has become. Then a surprise visitor shows up with news that entirely upends the comfortable life she's been leading.  
 
Faced with all these changes, Isabella struggles to sort through her future and who she wants to be. But trouble is brewing, and there are those who hope she stays just as she is, even if it costs her everything.

Available since: 07/05/2022.

Print length: 304 pages.

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