Her people uprooted by broken promises. Her heart torn by conflicting desires. The Trail of Tears: The forced exodus of the Cherokee people from their homeland in Georgia to make way for the white gold miners and settlers. Katherine Blue Song's family never lived to see the Trail of Tears. They were massacred just as she returned from Philadelphia, where she'd been one of the country's first women trained as a doctor. Justis Gallatin, a white man, a rough-and-ready miner, was Jesse Blue Song's friend and partner. Before he buried the victims of the massacre, he made a solemn promise...
Her people uprooted by broken promises. Her heart torn by conflicting desires. The Trail of Tears: The forced exodus of the Cherokee people from t...
Ten years compressed in the nerve-racking space of a few seconds.
This tall, broad-shouldered stranger was her husband. Every memory she had of his appearance was there, stamped with a brutal decade of maturity, but there. Except for the look in his eyes. Nothing had ever been bleak and hard about him before. He stared at her with an intensity that could have burned her shadow on the floor.
Words were hopeless, but all that they had. “Welcome back,” she said. Then, brokenly, “Jake.”
He took a deep breath, as if a...
He was home from prison.
Ten years compressed in the nerve-racking space of a few seconds.
They shared a love of all living things. He needed money to protect his sanctuary. She needed a soulmate who could accept her extraordinary secret.
"I can't concentrate if you look at me that way, chere," Paul warned. "What way?" Caroline asked innocently. "Don't the men in Beverly Hills tell you how sexy you look when you dance?" "Oh, yes," she said, teasing him. "Lots of men. All handsome and wealthy." "So what are they doing while you're in Louisiana?" She smiled wickedly. "Crying." "Why? Afraid you'll come back?" "Oh,...
They shared a love of all living things. He needed money to protect his sanctuary. She needed a soulmate who could accept her extraordi...
