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Secret to Hold is a western historical romance set in Wyoming Territory in 1886. To escape her past, Jessica Bradley accepts a teaching position on a remote Wyoming sheep ranch. Before she reaches the ranch, she is advised to return to her home. The owner of the ranch, Cameron McPherson, is suspected of murdering the previous teacher. Without money to buy a return ticket, she continues her journey. At the ranch she learns secrets that threaten her life. In spite of the rumors of the accusations against her employer, she suspects the lies are not true. In the process of searching for the truth, she faces threats and prejudice against one of her students who she must protect at any cost.

Four women on a backpacking trip are attacked by four escaped convicts on the first night of their trip. The convicts threaten them knowing the women can identify them. The women must escape their tormentors and out run them to safety. It means changing their plans of following a trail to the trailhead and taking an alternate route over a high mountain pass in the hope the men will take the trail. Unfortunately, the convicts realize they are going to the pass and follow them. Weather, land slides, and hazardous terrain become an added threat to the women. While they struggled to survive, they must come to terms with one another and their individual demons. Is their will to survive strong enough to out run the convicts?

Chet Johnson, a bounty hunter after a vicious outlaw who killed his family, visits a small Kansas town looking for the man. When he arrives, the prostitutes at the saloon inform him the outlaw has left, but he has a four-month old son by one of the prostitutes who has died. At first, he denies the child who resembles his deceased brother. He must accept the child. He asks the women to care for the baby. The women refuse because of their line of work. They suggest he ask a destitute woman living in a broken down covered wagon to care for the child.

Abandoned by her husband who lost her mining claim to the desperado, Susan Bidleman wants to hunt for Three Fingers George and recover her mining claim located in South Pass. Desperate, she agrees to care for Chet's baby if she can accompany Chet to find Three Fingers George. In his mind it is not a good idea, but agrees out of desperation.
Their journey takes them through Indian country. Outlaws are a constant threat. Weather hinders their progress. Chet takes on more responsibilities than he could ever imagine as their lives are constantly threatened.