The Independent Bride — Leigh Greenwood

COLORADO TERRITORY, 1868: It is about as rough and ready as the West can get, a place and time almost as dangerous as the men who left civilization behind, driven by a desire for land, gold...a new life.

FORT LOOKOUT: It is a rugged outpost where soldiers, cattlemen and Indians live on the edge of open warfare, the last place any woman in her right mind would choose to settle.

ABBY: She is everything a man should avoid -- with a face of beauty and an expression of stubborn determination. Colonel Bryce McGregor knows there is no room for such a woman at his fort or in his heart. Yet as she receives proposal after proposal from his troops, Bryce realizes the only man he can allow her to marry is himself.

Heroine: Abagail (Abby) Beatrice Edmunds