Family Love - Family Love, #1

This is the first book of the Family Love Series based in the 1880s in a small Southern Maine town where Sarena Caldwell and her son are missing and thought to be kidnapped by a ruthless gang called the Dunlap Brothers who have captured countless women and then left them for dead, but never have they kidnapped a woman and her son nor would they have dared. This time was different they had something to prove and they were going to use Sarena and her son to do so.
Leroy Collins is a young tracker from Colorado hired by Jacob Caldwell Sarena's father to find them. Leroy was well known for tracking the Dunlap Brothers and saving what women he could from certain death. Never had Leroy been captured by a woman's beauty than he was with the young woman that he saw in the drawing her father gave him. The more he thought of Sarena and the Dunlap Brothers he wanted so much to find and protect her. Leroy believes he is only in search of a lonely broken widow that is going to try and break him never realizing Sarena was never married and her son was the result of being raped, but still he can't fight the feelings he has for a woman he has never met and begins to rely on family and close friends to help him find her.
Will the love of two families combined and the deepest secrets they must endure through to save Sarena and her son before they are added to the list of people the Dunlap Brothers have murdered? Most of all will Leroy be able to save her from the secrets her and her family holds?Sarena a young woman, loses her mother, then raped and bares the child of the man who raped her. With an uncle who watches over her and a father that helps raise her son, this is all the family she has.
Sarena is strong willed and brave, who has endured much pain that has caused her to fear all men. With her weakness she has more than enough strength and no fear when protecting her son and secret hidden talents that no man would expect a broken young woman to have.