About this ebook
To full-fill that promise Jared has moved his entire family, including Ruby, west to the Colorado territories. Along the way, they encountered drought, fire, a raging Mississippi River and two unexpected rivals.
Now, those rivals are about to play an integral part in Ruby and Jared’s destiny.
We pick up the story as Mennonite outcast Lorelei Hansmueller has followed Jared to Fort Latham, Colorado, after the death of her father, in hopes of making Jared her husband. Is Lorelei too late?
On the night of the fire, that destroyed Henry Wilkes’ new home, Ruby and Jared finally gave in to their passion and Ruby is pregnant with Jared’s child.
But can Ruby and Jared hold onto their relationship in a time when love, let alone marriage, between the races is strictly forbidden? Or will Lorelei force Jared into another loveless marriage with the threat of revealing his deadly secret?
About the author
ELIZA D. ANKUM grew up in the small, and very rural, town of Latham, Alabama back in a time when there were no McDonalds, paved streets, or street lights, and telephones were a luxury. Eliza’s favorite pastime was reading the Encyclopedia Britannica.
When she was 13 years old her parents made a decision that would forever change her life. They moved the family to Chicago, Illinois.
Chicago was a world apart from Latham, Alabama. Everything was different – the way the people dressed, the way they talked, and even the way they moved through their world was different from downhome.
As might be expected, her rural upbringing made her a target for Chicago's tough inner city kids. How did she cope? She took to the Library and found new worlds and friends in books. Never before had she found such solace. Latham had been too poor and too isolated to afford such an indulgent thing as a Library.
After High School, she transferred her love of reading into a job set taking on mostly administrative and secretarial jobs. These jobs gave her another set of skills valuable to all authors, grammar and sentence building.
It was not until years later, while watching The Oprah Show that she was inspired to try her hand at writing, first with her riveting autobiography, ‘STALKED! By Voices’. Eliza followed with the fictional aviation disaster novel, ‘Flight 404’. She then wrote the highly successful Ruby Sanders and Jared Anderson series.
