Finnegan's Gold by Kathryn Imbriani

Penniless, pregnant and on the run after killing her abusive lover in self defense, Jenny Hanson wonders if life gets any worse than this. She needs a place to have her baby and chaos of Dawson City in the midst of the Gold Rush seems just the place for her to disappear in plain sight. But, while making her way to Dawson City, she hitches a ride with the very man sent to bring her to justice – North West Mounted Policeman Mike Finnegan.Finnegan left behind a trouble past when he enlisted in the North West Mounted Police and sought solace in the wilderness of western Canada. And now, he finds himself embroiled in yet another fiasco when he falls in love with Jenny Hanson. Can these two damaged people straighten out all that is wrong with their lives and find a future in each other? Or will Finnegan be forced to arrest Jenny and see that she is tried for murder?