Swift Horse — Cassie Edwards

Torn between passions on the Kentucky frontier...

After witnessing the murder of her parents at the hands of a one-eyed Indian warrior, Marsha Eveland swears she will never forgive his people. Her brother is about to complicate this simple hatred, however. While Marsha is living with him at his trading post, he announces plans to marry Soft Wind, beautiful sister of the Creek chieftain Swift Horse.

Now, even if she can accept her brother's betrayal, can Marsha come to terms with a new feeling she cannot deny--one that drives her into the arms of that same chieftain? Though romance draws the two families ever closer, the past cannot so easily be left behind. On the fateful day of a tribal council meeting, fear rather than love sends Marsha frantically running to Swift Horse, for she has just had an encounter with his best friend, who bears an eerie resemblance to her parents' killer. It is then that Marsha must realize her life itself is at stake in the decision to let the noble chieftain into her heart....