About This Book
Trapped Amaryllis Blaze Kensington, a beautiful, spoiled Southern Belle, faces life's biggest challenge when drastic circumstances change her life forever. Blaze finds herself and Cooper Westcott, the man she loves, his paranoid sister, Blaze's mammy, and three ex-slaves trapped in an old, abandoned gem mine. Blaze's beloved mammy dies, her sweetheart is badly wounded, and his sister is on the verge of collapse. One of the three Negroes is crushed to death, and Blaze finds herself in charge of finding a way to escape the deteriorating supports of the old mine shaft. She battles a mercenary step-mother, who has hired a killer. He befriends them in the mine. The killer's lustful desire to take her purity is foiled. She outfoxes him and manages to elude his sadistic advances, and is able to lead the others to safety. Two businessmen in the town they've escaped to are intent on stealing her money, and the deed to Kensington Manor, her plantation home. How she rises above these conditions is a study in unselfishness, bravery, and genuine love.
