When Morning Comes — Robin Leanne Wiete

Rebecca Osborne was a beautiful young widow with a small child, alone but unafraid on the American frontier. Cain was the name of the man she sought, a white man who lived among the Shawnees, and whose powers of healing she desperately needed to treat her injured child.

They met in a wilderness ravished by violence, as a brutal military and a proud native American tribe struggled for the virgin land. It was there, in the shadow of danger and in the dawning of burning desire, that they discovered they were not strangers but lovers, joined together by a passion stronger than the past and as dazzlingly bright as the future ....