Savage Beauty — Jane Toombs

A beautiful young woman accompanies her soldier father to a fort in Indian country, where she in transformed from a naive, spoiled child into a woman capable of fighting for her life when she is taken prisoner by a renegade indian.

Valerie falls in love with one of Custer's soldiers, and nothing will stop her search for her beloved after the terrible massacre that left all but a very few dead.

A well-researched story that takes the reader inside the personal lives of men and women who lived, loved and died during the events leading up to and following Custer's last stand.