Frontier Woman — Joan Johnston

In a young and lawless Texas, one woman stood ready for anything -- except love!

She was Cricket, youngest of the ravishing Stewart sisters raised to shoot, ride, and fight as well as any man. On her pinto stallion, she roamed the harsh vast beauty that was Texas, and gloried in its promise -- a promise she would reap alone. No man would be her master! Then Texas Ranger Jarrett Creed crashed into her world, with a challenge in his smoky topaz eyes that made her heart beat like thunder. And before she could wipe the insolent grin from his face he had the nerve to save her from a band of marauding Comanches -- by claiming her as his bride!

Cricket was furious but her rage was no match for Jarrett's kisses. Time and again his lips sought her own tenderly, savagely, tasting and caressing until she came to him willingly. In his arms she blossomed like a lone desert flower in the rain. But all too soon their love would be threatened -- by vengeful Comanches and a traitor's desperate plot!