Jeanne Williams

The widow and daughters of Jonathan Ware hide out in a hidden valley with other women and children. Dan O'Brien unknowingly impregnates Christy Ware while on furlough from the Union army. After he returns to duty, Lafe Ballard comes upon Christy, promising to force her to his will. Christy is terrified Lafe will discover the hidden valley and return with the raiders to prey upon the women hiding there.

SO LONG AS LOVE SHALL LIVE IN A WOMAN'S HEART She was the last to inherit the secret. It had been passed through generations from mother to daughter since the dawn of woman's desire. Now it would lead Eden Lowrie across the world to the fulfillment of her heart's destiny... The old woman who long ago brought the secret to America took Eden as the daughter she had lost. A daughter to bequeath her land, and the secret. A beautiful young woman her grandsons fought to possess. One pursued Eden with a passion that threatened to become violent hatred. The other denied his passion. Until the secret called Eden to the ancient cave where women through the ages had come with their longings and dreams... and where Eden would die unless the man she loved her as well...

From the pleasures of her sheltered world in the bayous to the treacherous vastness of the great Southwest and beyond forever quenching her thirst for all the passion and adventure life had to offer wildly beautiful Rachel Delys fled the memories of her battle-slain lover and the fury of the Civil War. Across a tempestuous landscape, three men tried to tame her one who seduced her, one who ravaged her, and one who would bring her at last to the peak of sublime rapture and depths of soul-searing love!

Describes the white man's treatment and forcible displacement of five Indian nations of the Southwest--the Comanche, Cheyenne, Apache, Navajo, and Cherokee.

To overcome his guilt about nearly causing the death of a friend, a teen-age boy takes a job on his uncle's oil drilling rig, a job requiring courage and responsibility.

In 1863, while helping to get a wagon trail full of cotton from Missouri to an open port in Texas, Vin envies his older brother in the Confederate Army but finds that his unglamorous task involves thrills and courage.

A Texas boy spends a year in captivity on a Mexican hacienda, where he learns respect and affection for the Mexican culture and gains an understanding of what freedom really means.