This Fever in My Blood — Mary Louise Manning

Against the bold panorama of America's golden past, they shared an adventure more compelling than riches, a loveorroe lasting than time.

She was a beautiful child-woman, a lost waif wandering dazed in the desert, when Nevada Jones found her.

He was a rough cowhand, an outlaw headed west to make his fortune, but he would teach her, tame her, and protect her with his life until the fateful day she found herself alone, certain she had lost him forever.

Swept to California, caught up in the gold fever that ravaged the land, Dawn Carlyle would be the youngest prize in a shameless bordello, a child bride learning love the hard way. She would rise from bitter poverty to wealth and power before destiny played its last trick, before she could know the love she was meant for, a rapture of the heart that defied death and time itself.