Susanna’s Choice

Man-of-the-world Rab Trudeau and ingenue Susanna Ward know their love is meant to be, but as Luck would have it in her promising debut, their betrotheds have other plans. In the 1870s Comstock region of Colorado, Rab must go undercover to unearth illegal stock manipulation affecting the value of his silver mine. After rescuing Susanna from a runaway wagon, he invites her to dinner and they quickly fall in love. But Susanna has vowed to marry the son of the man who saved her from certain death when she was a child, and Rab’s social-climbing San Francisco fiancée, Margaret, is planning their nuptials even as Rab fends off murderous felons. Rab and Susanna must both choose between honor and love. Luck has skillfully interwoven a solid story line of greed and corruption with a just-right soupçon of romantic tension. (Jan.)