Angel Hunter

Eight months after the end of the Civil War, Angel Hunter and her father Henry Scott lose their Louisiana home 'Scotcroft' from not having the funds to keep it. So they board a riverboat heading up the Mississippi River to Saint Louis with their prized stallion Bold King.On the riverboat is where Ruark Stewart meets her. He notices she has a stallion with fine lines and he sets out to own the stallion to breed Bold King to get the best race horses for his racing stables.Angel refuses to sell him and stands fast to her word only to turn around and find out that her father's gambling habits have lost her favorite horse in a card game to Ruark.Angel wants to hate Ruark but instead becomes his mistress only to dispise him more when Ruark thinks she's a [prostitute]. So when she comes up pregnant on a trip to England with Ruark, remembering his words to her, she leaves him, only to be reunited with him back in St. Louis two years later when their son is near 2 years old, and he coerces Angel to marry him.I started out hating Ruark for how he thought immediately that she was a card-cheating, theiving [prostitute] and I had to force myself to read through that part... but by the middle to the end you are rooting for Ruark! It is a page turner! Give this book the benefit of the doubt and you'll come out liking it!