Borrowed Trouble
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Life for Clara wasn't going as planned. Married at nineteen to a man she thought she knew, life takes a turn when she is uprooted from everything and everyone she knows to embark on a new journey with her husband. When tragedy strikes along the Santa Fe Trail she faces a future she is completely unprepared for.
In the 1830s, thousands of Americans participated in Westward expansion, most traveled on the more familiar Oregon Trail while others took the less traveled Santa Fe Trail. Looking to take advantage of the vast number of people headed west by setting up a general mercantile along the trail, Clara and her husband James fall into the latter choosing to travel from central Missouri to settle in the Southwest.
Will she survive life on the trail? And more importantly, will she ever get her happily ever after?
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