The Searching Hearts — Dorothy Garlock

SHE FOUND ADVENTURE ON THE WINDSWEPT PRAIRIES -- AND A THRILLING, BOUNDLESS LOVE!

Lovely, copper-tressed Tucker Houston, was a fiercely independent orphan, determined to become a schoolteacher and find a better life, in the rich new lands of the West. Joining a wagon train of mail order brides bound for California, she came face to face with Lucas Steele, the handsome, rugged wagonmaster -- and suddenly her future seemed far less sure. Soon, in spite of herself, proud Tucker surrendered to the wild abandon, the raging hungers she found in Lucas's powerful arms...

But then another man joined the wagon train -- a ruthless, savage man who would stop at nothing to satisfy his lust for Tucker! And she discovered what price she would have to pay to keep her tender love with Lucas alive...