Bitterroot — Victoria Chancellor

FLOWER OF DESIRE...

In the Wyoming Territory -- a land both breathtaking and brutal -- bitterroots grow every summer for a brief time. Therapist Rebecca Hartford has never seen such a plant -- until she is swept back to the days of Indian medicine men, feuding ranchers, and her pioneer forebears. Nor has she ever known a man as dark, menacing, and devastatingly handsome as Sloan Travers. Sloan hides a tormented past, and Rebecca vows to use her professional skills to help the former Union soldier, even though she longs to succumb to personal desire. But when a mysterious shaman warns Rebecca that her sojourn in the Old West will last only as long as the bitterroot blooms, she can only pray that her love for Sloan is strong enough to span the ages....