Because of You by Micki Brown

Tags: American-Reconstruction Era,

When Confederate soldier Nick Windsor returns from the battlefields of the Civil War, he is haunted and angry. All he wants is to earn enough money to leave the South and start a new life in Texas. Then he meets golden-haired Amber Jenne.

At first, Nick wants nothing to do with the pampered daughter of the wealthy northern businessman he has taken a job with. It's bad enough he has to work for a Yankee, but he'll be damned if he's going to be nice to his daughter.

But when assassins threaten her father's life and Amber Jenne seeks out Nick's help, she becomes a temptation he is unable to resist...a complication he cannot resolve...and more of a threat than any Yankee had ever been