Rising Thunder — Carolyn Ann Wharton

You gave the best performance of an innocent, hardworking unmarried woman that I've ever seen, Miss Abigail... Abigail Brannon had never expected frontier life to be easy. But when Indian marauders had murdered her young husband only a few years after their small family had settled in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains, Abigail had to learn how to survive on the strength of faith alone. Now living with her parents in the growing frontier town of Winchester, Abigail felt safe from the Indians. But she had no inda how to survive an encounter with Patricik Taylor.