[Destiny's Daughters 03] • The Fur Trader's Daughter · Rendezvous

**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 who was 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 blizzard, 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 the drunks who tried to grope her at the trading post, unwelcome advances she politely repelled. In the warm light of the roaring fire, she relents and gives in to passion she has never felt before, glorying in the splendor of first love—a tender ecstasy she never dreamed of…

But Gabrielle and Jefferson are fire and ice. Worlds apart. When he talks, she hears words she doesn’t understand and vice versa. Sometimes it seems they cannot find a way to cross the bridge between them and they fight with all their might. Then the day comes when they face danger from enemies, enemies who are jealous of what they have and want to take it from them. Together, Gabrielle and Jefferson must fight to hold onto everything that is theirs.

BONUS

This edition contains a bonus excerpt from FORTUNE’S MISTRESS by Judith E. French.

DESTINY’S DAUGHTERS

THE PRINTER’S DAUGHTER: REBELLION (Book 1)

THE BOOTMAKER’S DAUGHTER: REVOLUTION (Book 2)

THE FUR TRADER’S DAUGHTER: RENDEZVOUS (Book 3)

Destiny’s Daughters gained their fathers’ trust and confidence as they learned his trade by his side. When their fathers died, they carried on his legacy as sole heir. Destiny’s Daughters protect what is rightfully theirs and guard their hearts for the right man, one they don’t have to pretend with, one who can truly love them. When Mr. Right finally arrives, he brings the sweetest first passion and ecstasy…

ABOUT COLLEEN FRENCH

Colleen French has a unique gift for capturing the essence of passion in her breathtaking tales of romance and adventure. Winner of the Delaware Diamond Award for Literary Excellence and the P.E.A.R.L. award, she is the daughter of bestselling novelist Judith E. French who first taught her how to write. Colleen has written more than 130 print novels which have sold more than 5 million copies and been translated into Bulgarian, French, German, Italian, Mandarin, and Spanish. Her Native American novels are inspired by her English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, and Lenni–Lenape ancestry and her home near the Chesapeake Bay, where her family has lived for more than 300 years. Her books appeal to fans of Christi Caldwell, Mary Balogh, C. J. Petit, Shirleen Davies, Karen Kay, Madeline Baker, Elle Marlow, Ellen O'Connell, Vonna Harper, Judith E. French, Kathryn Le Veque, Margaret Mallory, Julie Garwood, Caroline Fyffe, Maya Banks, Hannah Howell, Fiona Faris, and Alisa Adams.