The Fur Trader's Daughter: Rendezvous

Destiny's Daughters #3

by Colleen Faulkner, Colleen French

The riveting story of the fur trader’s daughter and the smooth-talking Southern gentleman whose life she saves and their passionate frontier romance with its promise of bliss.

Gabrielle LeBeau is wild like the north woods where she was raised by her father the French fur trader, himself the son of a French fur trader. Running an outpost is in Gabrielle’s blood and she knows every path and tree and the Indian names for them. Over the years, she has seen many city folk venture into the pine woods to play frontier woodsman. She fears them, feels disdain for them. They don’t belong. Carpetbaggers.

But when she finds Jefferson Alexander half froze to death in a snow storm, she doesn’t think twice and saves him. Back in her rough-hewn cabin, made from cedar logs she and her father cut, Gabrielle cares tenderly for Jefferson. Sheltered from the beating blizzard, it’s warm and cozy under her roof. As he sleeps, she looks at his handsome chiseled features. This stranger is most welcome in her home...

One day after he recovers, she can’t resist his grateful embrace and it turns into more…. For the first time Gabrielle savors the sweet touch of a man who knows how to love a woman, a gentleman so unlike drunks who tried to grope her at the trading post, unwelcome advances she politely repelled. In the warmth of the roaring fire, she relents and gives in to passion she could never imagine, glorying in the splendor of first love—a tender ecstasy she never dreamed would be hers…

But Gabrielle and Jefferson are fire and ice. Worlds apart. When he talks, she hears words she doesn’t understand and him too. Sometimes they cannot find a way to cross the bridge between them and they fight with all their might. Then the day comes when jealous enemies make it their business to take away everything Gabrielle has and together with this man by her side, she must fight to hold onto everything that is hers, including Jefferson, the sweetest man on earth.

Genres: Romance

335 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 1, 1988

About the author

Now writes as Colleen French.

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