Ivory Irons is young, wealthy, and utterly gorgeous. As the only child of one of the richest men in the country, firearm mogul and manufacturer Henry Irons, she has every advantage as well as every male eye that comes her way.

Joshua Barker has never enjoyed coming to town, but must do so regularly to engage in whatever work he can find.

The two are brought together cruelly one night as Joshua halts a vicious attack which pits Ivory as the victim, and despite his best efforts, Ms. Irons proclaims to be in his debt.

What starts out as basic assistance and harmless company turns into a deep, personal, and lustful connection which neither Irons nor Barker knew they could feel.

It isn't long before her father learns of the relationship and demands she cut ties immediately, but her heart does not allow it and the two are cloaked in shame and exile and forced to risk all they know for the love they share…

To Love and War is created by G.M. Enright, an eGlobal Creative Publishing author.

To Love and War

        It was Joshua’s first time in a carriage, never had he been anywhere that he couldn’t reach on foot, even if it meant walking for three or four hours to get where he was going.  Hooverton must have picked up on such a reality, not once turning his bright eyes and tight smile away from Joshua’s glare into the outside world.  Joshua was the biggest, fattest ant on the farm and Hooverton was the cruel child with a magnifying glass.  


        Joshua couldn’t help but think to himself how different the world looked through the glass of the carriage.  There was a barrier between him and the world at that very moment which had never been in the past, an obstruction to alter the way he viewed the world.  The outside world and him, them and him.  The people didn’t look the same, altered by glass, though he’d been looking at them for the majority of his life.


Chapter 28