Desert Hearts — Marjorie Farrell

Passion Under the Sun

Their destinies collided in a rugged Southwestern fort in Navajo territory. Elizabeth Woolcott was the young widow of a kind but elderly cavalry officer. Sergeant Michael Burke was a handsome Irish immigrant looking for a land where he could build a future. She was too loyal to the memory of her husband to admit that her heart trembled whenever he came close. He was too stubborn to reveal he was falling in love with her.

Against the septa-tinted hills, Michael's desire for Elizabeth became a secret obsession. However, this was a time when tensions were mounting between settlers and Indians, and the Navajos were being pushed from their homeland. Elizabeth and Michael sympathized with their plight, but the violence that ensued sent the lovers in different directions -- and into different kinds of danger. But even though the perils of riots and chaos, Elizabeth and Michael found that their passion was worth risking everything for love...