Dakin Field — Pamela Ryder

Stelle Lyford Dakin, numbed with grief, dreamed of her husband, her lost love. Still, she was tempted by forbidden passion. Prescott Farrar knew what he wanted -- and how to get it. But the real prize he wanted was not Stella, but her land. For beneath the windswept Oklahoma prairie lay a secret treasure -- a hoard of natural gas more valuable than the Dakin oil. She had lost her man. Would she lose her land to strangers? The land was her heritage, but her most precious legacy was her daughters, Marietta and Lucy. Stella, a proud, stubborn beauty, battled on, to keep her family together in a murderous, man's world.