The Gold and the Gunner

Josephine Oglethorne's life is a tragedy. She's lost both parents and six siblings to war, sickness and broken hearts, all before turning seventeen. When her fiancé breaks their engagement – and her heart – by marrying someone else, Jo is left to look after the family farm and carry on alone.

But then a lost love from her past walks back into her life, asking questions about missing Confederate gold that her father might (or might not) have hidden before his death.

Reid Lawrence, a former Confederate soldier, is now working for the Federal government and looking for the elusive gold, even though he isn't sure it exists. When Jo saves Reid from a lynching by her former fiancé, he begins to suspect that she knows more than she's letting on about the lost treasure.

He's willing to put his life in jeopardy, and to put her over his knee, to discover the truth about the gold. But he never expected the sort of treasure he'd find in the end.