Fires of Oakhurst — Walter Reed Johnson

From the Atlantic to the Rio Grande, America was in turmoil...as the great plantations of the Old South fought for survival amid economic collapse...and pioneers thrusting into Texas found themselves faced with the iron barrier of Mexican rule.

In this time of challenge and change, the Beauforts of Oakhurst Manor were forced into separate paths of passion and peril... Lance Beaufort, following the trail of a fabulous treasure of gold from the depths of a notorious brothel to the heights of adventure at the side of Apache warriors and in the arms of a rapacious Indian princess...his wife, Carrie, taking on a man's job in single-handedly ruling a vast cotton kingdom, and yielding to her woman's needs in the bed of an irresistible, sensually enslaving lover...