Yellow Rose Bride (Wildflower Series #1) by Lori Copeland

Vonnie's father dies, there are mysterious things happening on the ostrich farm some of which are dangerous and threatening and she must consider to stay or sell. Years later they still love each other, but now Adam is engaged due to his father's wishes and his fiance is asking Vonnie to make her wedding dress. Adam doesn't want to but does because he was asked. After the fact, Vonnie feels guilty knowing her father's feelings toward PK and wants an annulment. It happened anyway and Adam and Vonnie were secretly married when in their teens. When they both had kids they were forbidden to associate with each other.

When PK thought the Teague kept the jewels to profit himself and his ostrich farm he was let down by the actions because he was as close as a brother to Teague. Teague hated the 'blood money' and threw them away only Franz another of the solders found them and barried them in Teague's cellar.

El, one of the 4 solders present pilgrimages the farmers wagon and found a bag of jewels which he threw to Teague and told him to keep to help out him and his family.

Before anyone knew what was happening gunfire broke out and the farmer and his family were dead. When Teague and PK were coming back from the war they happened upon a farmer and his family. I love this authors clean romance books.This one deals with old wounds between father's causing hurt between their children. She and her husband are very involved in their church, and active in supporting mission work in Mali, West Africa. They have three grown sons, three daughter-in-laws, and six wonderful grandchildren, and two great-granddaughters. Lori and her husband of over forty years, Lance, live in Springfield, Missouri, surrounded by the beautiful Ozarks. She has also collaborated with authors Angela Elwell Hunt or Virginia Smith on a series of Christian romance novels. Her subsequent books have been in the relatively new subgenre of Christian romance. She has been inducted into the Missouri Writers Hall of Fame.ĭespite her success in more mainstream romantic fiction, in 1995, she decided to switch focus. Over the next dozen years, her romance novels achieved much success, as was evidenced by her winning the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, The Holt Medallion, and Walden Books' Best Seller award.

She had a relatively late start in writing, breaking into publishing in 1982 when she was already forty years old.

Yellow Rose Bride (Wildflower Series #1) by Lori Copeland