The sky is red-bellied when you disembark from the last car on the train, and it casts the town in an amber glow. You swore you'd never look back after what happened back east. Traveling west was supposed to be your escape, a place where no one would know your name or the horror you'd left behind, but when Sheriff John Thorne mistakes you for his mail-order bride, he threatens to undo everything you've worked so hard to attain. His sharp-eyed scrutiny leaves you no room to refuse without drawing dangerous attention, and so you find yourself trapped in the lie-playing the role of a woman you've never met, praying no one looks too closely. John isn't what you expect. He's patient where others have been cruel, quiet where others have judged. He teaches you to ride a horse with a steady hand, shows you the beauty in the mountains and the hush of the prairie dawn. The people of this town start to feel like the family you never had. And against every instinct, you begin to wonder if you've stumbled into the life you were meant to find. Yet the past doesn't stay buried for long. Whispers travel fast and men travel faster, danger having a way of crossing even the wildest plains. When your secrets threaten to destroy everything you've built with John, you'll have to choose: tell him the truth and risk losing him forever...or run again before the past catches up for good. A sweeping western romance full of mistaken identities, passion, and forgiveness, All That Waits Beyond the Dawn will make you believe that love can bloom even in the harshest landscapes-and that sometimes, the only way to outrun your past is to face it.