<p>After a deadly illness destroys her family and leaves her permanently scarred Emma refuses to die in the ruins of her old life.</p><p>With nothing left behind for her she joins a wagon train bound for California chasing rumors of opportunity in the untamed West. But the journey across the frontier is brutal-marked by hunger loss violence and the constant threat of death.</p><p>The other travelers stare at her scars.</p><p>Some pity her. Others fear her.</p><p>Only one man looks at Emma and truly sees her.</p><p>As the hardened wagon trail leader guides his people across deserts mountains and impossible choices a quiet bond begins to grow between them. But both carry wounds deeper than the trail itself and in a land where survival comes first love may be the most dangerous risk of all.</p><p>From the dust of the American frontier to the streets of a rising San Francisco <em>Bury My Dreams</em> is a sweeping historical romance about resilience reinvention and finding hope after unimaginable loss.</p>