Deputy's Captive (Sweet Town Clean Historical Western Romance #22)

Euphemia Smith is a wild thing, at least according to her parents. Dragged away from a comfortable life in Philadelphia, she's been kept working constantly, her wages and even the food off of her own plate snatched away for her father's greed. She dreams of a more exciting, fulfilling life and finds it when a mysterious stranger saves her from bank robbers.

Tom Rudolph didn't come to Sweet Town looking to join the law, but destiny thrust a badge upon him after he rescued Effie and caught a member of an outlaw gang. With his attention split between catching the rest of the gang and talking Effie out of her self-destructive fantasies of running away from her family, even a man with gifts as remarkable as his is stretched pretty thin.

But when Effie's taken hostage and Tom has to choose between his duty to the sheriff and protecting a burgeoning love, they discover how hard they're both willing to fight for what they believe in.

Historical romance comes alive in quiet Sweet Town. Established in the Dakota Gold Rush of the 1870s, Sweet Town is surrounded by gentle hills and fields of clover. It's a place where anyone can start over and romance and redemption are never out of reach.

Sweet Town romances tell the stories of the community as its members fall in love. These clean western stories follow residents of Sweet Town from mail order brides to a cowboy with a dark past. Anyone might find a miracle when they open their heart.

Follow the Sweet Town Clean Historical Western Romance series in this reading order. Each book can be read as a standalone novel, though the unfolding story of the community is better appreciated in order!
A Bride's Price
What Child Is This
Calling His Bluff
Not Always Nice
Preacher's Wife
Doctor's Midwife
Carpenter's Rose
Silver Bells
Blacksmith's Christmas Bride
Teacher's Pet
Rancher's Woman
Author's Muse
Orphan Lost
Lawyer's Lady
Miner's Vow
Storm's Gift
Lured to Paris
Cowboy's Harmony
Highlander's Heart
Empty Arms
Lakota's Defender
Deputy's Captive