Journey of the Heart — Marjorie Farrell

THE LADY...
After two years at a proper Eastern school, beautiful and vivacious Caitlin Burke returns to her family's New Mexico ranch to find the valley she loves vastly changed and greedy cattle rancher Nelson Mackie scheming to take over their spread. Even more upsetting, her beloved horse, Night Sky, badly injured in a terrible accident, has been placed in the caring hands of wrangler Gabe Hart.

AND THE WRANGLER
Their mutual love for Night Sky draws Cait and Gabe together, and before long, an irresistible passion ignites between the cultured, articulate lady and the silver-blond Texan of few words. But their love, indeed their lives, are threatened when Mackie turns his gunsights on the ranch, and Gabe vows to help Cait's family stop this ruthless murderer -- or die trying...