bTwo strangers hiding their own life-long secrets. Can pretending to be married...ibe that hardib The town of Greenlock shuns the daughter of the mortician. Day after day, Lauren begrudgingly has to take over her father's duties creating despondence in her tender heart. brThen a voice speaks from the morgue basement. A rough and tumble outlaw who's supposed to be dead is still balive!b pFor some unfathomable reason, Lauren agrees to help him stay dead. pElias was raised at Lennhurst Asylum. Since he had no family or future, he jumped a half-served prison sentence and enlisted in the recent Civil War to wield explosives. From running and surviving all his life, all Elias promised anyone was loyalty. Love was out of the question. When Lauren mentions her longing to see her mother and sister in Colorado, for loyalty's sake, he offers to take her on the arduous wagon train journey. Of course, it wouldn't be proper not to be married while traveling together. Lauren and Elias, so vastly oppo