Missouri Flame: Deborah Leigh — Jeanne Foster

Her cool New England background mingled with the passion of her hot Cherokee blood to challenge a savage land

DEBORAH LEIGH...A copper-haired beauty, gently reared. To all appearances she was white. But she could never forget, never betray, her Indian ancestry.

She was swept away from her family gracious home in Georgia onto the Cherokee Trail of Tears -- the migration of a whole tribe driven from their lands to travel west beyond the Mississippi. The Cherokee blood in Deborah rebelled against the government that oppressed them., But another more challenging battle waged within her -- the fire and longing she felt for a white man, Dr. Matt Devlin. And Devlin could withstand all loss save that of this love for the proud woman whose courage defied the enemy that threatened to destroy them all...