Dreamsong — Linda Ladd

Escape was her obsession...until she knew the passion of her captor's love.

RIVER OF DREAMS

Bethany Cole had run for her life, taking her young charge Peeto with her. When Luke Randall arrived home to find them gone, he took off after his young son and the "kidnapper" with fury in his heart. But the feisty, fearless frontier girl was hardly the quarry the rugged trapper expected. Neither the lawless land nor the raging Mississippi deterred her as twice she tried to flee. Yet as the two adversaries pushed south to Luke's New Orleans plantation, Bethany's young loveliness tested the very limits of his stony control. And what started as a war of wills soon dissolved into a sweet song of passion as unstoppable as the river itself.