THE WEDDING PROMISENo one is more surprised than Sunny Licht when Noah Whitmore proposes. She's a scarlet woman and an unwed mother-an outcast even in her small Quaker community. But she can't resist Noah's offer of a fresh start in a place where her scandalous past is unknown. In Sunny, the ex-Union soldier sees a woman whose loneliness matches his own.When they arrive in Wisconsin, he'll see that she and her baby daughter want for nothing...except the love that war burned out of him. Yet Sunny makes him hope once more-for the home they're building, and the family he never hoped to find. Wilderness Brides: Finding love-and a fresh start-on the frontier