We must go west. Alone, Blue Eyes, leaving all that we are behind. All those we love, your people, my people.Loretta caught his face between her hands, shaking with the intensity of her emotions. Hunt...
Warrior, she’s going under!Warrior snatched a handful of the child’s dripping hair and pulled her up for air. Giving his head a shake, he moved toward shore. I don’t know. Maybe she’s too young. Maide...
There was no such thing in being prepared for Henry’s temper when it blew. Though Loretta was braced for it, she still jumped at the first roar.You’re I’m in the family way.With one suspender up and o...
One disastrous marriage in this family is aplenty.
My heart rides with you, Hunter moved his hands in a light caress down Loretta’s arms, then released her. And mine remains here.
Loretta Jane, we ain’t fixin’ to steal their horses, are we?You wanna walk?Hunter’s gonna flay us alive.
Life goes on. We just have to find the strength to face it sometimes, and the only way we can do that is to reach deep for faith and believe with all our hearts.
I’m quite a hand on names. Let me think on it.Something impressive for a boy, Ma. Amy pursed her lips. You know--like Mighty Fighter. Or Wise King. You gotta remember how Hunter thinks. They give boys...
In a voice that rasped with frustration as well as tender amusement, Hunter said, You have such a great want for me that we must hurry, yes?Her spine snapped taut, and she leaned her head back to look...
Hunter slipped from the bed and grabbed his breeches to pull them on. Bathed in moonlight, the planes of his body were gilded with silver, its contours cast into delineative shadow. Clutching a fur to...
He ran his palm up the curve of her back and then removed his arm from around her, amused at how swiftly she rolled off him, fussing with her many skirts to be sure her ruffled breeches weren’t expose...
He had once told Loretta that he would be as nothing without his people, and that was true. He would be giving up all that he was to be with her. Yet how could he live without her? The prophecy had co...
Falling in love doesn't always lead to heartbreak, honey. With the right man, it can be a one-way ticket to paradise.
You’re plumb addled, stealin’ off like this from a Comanche husband. Don’t you got an inklin’ of what he’ll do when he catches you?Beat me senseless, I reckon, which is why I’m not planning to get cau...
You sure are a purty thing, he murmured, his voice husky. I bet that buck of yours’ll be hot on our trail to git you back. That is if he ain’t dead.The stench of the man’s body filmed the lining of Lo...
We’re fine. Trust me. I rode to Hunter’s village, didn’t I?With directions from Hunter!Well, from now on I have to follow my nose.Enjoy it while you still have one.
The way things were going, if he was to become his woman’s friend before he became her lover, they might never move on to the second stage of their relationship.
The first day out, she and Amy kept one eye on the horizon behind them, terrified that Comanches would appear. The second day, both of them relaxed a little. By the third, Amy was convinced Hunter was...
She stared at the crude stone medallion that rose and fell against her bosom. And then it struck her. El Lobo, the wolf. Hunter of the Wolf. Her friend had protected her with something more than just...
One unto the other, with no horizon, that is what she wants! Imagine her setting up a lodge, tanning hides, sewing, cooking, gathering wood, all by herself. And what if she became ill while I was away...