Eagles of Destiny — Jory Sherman

SANTA FE TRAIL

Three brilliant, ambitious men -- one beautiful, irresistible woman -- and the savage world of the West to conquer

They were from different worlds, the dark-eyed Spanish beauty and the audacious Yankee trader. She was an aristocrat, an heiress promised in marriage to one of her peers; he was a penniless pioneer journeying west to make a fortune of his own on the Santa Fe Trail.

But Estrellita de Rojas and Jeremiah York knew, from the moment of their meeting, that they would share a tumultuous passion on the wild frontier. Nothing would keep them apart -- not the Spanish code of honor, not the dangers of the lawless land nor the threats of a fierce Comanche chieftain, for theirs was a future of soaring freedom and sensuous love. They were the wild, defiant