A Contradiction to His Pride

<p>From the moment James met Corrine as they traveled the <strong>Oregon Trai</strong>l in <strong>Smith's best-selling debut novel <em>Leaving Independence</em></strong> he couldn’t resist trying to win the sharp-mouthed beauty’s affections. </p><p>Now as the core group of <strong>pioneers</strong> in Colonel Dotson’s wagon train begins to settle in <strong>Baker City Oregon</strong> and build homesteads James is restless to make his fortune so he can stake his own claim and win Corrine’s hand with honor.</p><p>But when James takes Corrine on an outing designed to impress her things go tragically wrong. James foils a <strong>bank robbery </strong>and unwittingly sets a series of events into motion that shatter Corrine’s heart and now threaten her life along with his and her older brother Charlie’s. </p><p>Soon there are several folks heading back down <strong>the trail</strong>—James Charlie Corrine Harry and Tam Sims the Baker City Sheriff a newspaperman a notorious criminal family and Hoke Mathews—all set to collide in a final showdown in a <strong>Colorado mining town</strong> as outlaw Duke Walden seeks to make James pay for his heroic actions.</p>