When the tall, newly minted preacher named Aaron Wood came looking for a bride to accompany him on his mission to the Sandwich Islands, Elizabeth Morgan thought her prayers had been asnwered. Little did she suspect that the perfect love Aaron desired would not be for her and that escaped convict Ian McCloud, who boarded the Thaddeus at Rio de Janiero, would be the man who loves her and offers her refuge. During that refuge she discovers Ian is making his living by destroying the very people Aaron and Elizabeth have vowed to save. When a measles epidemic strikes Lahaina, Elizabeth is torn between the man who loves her and the man, and the life, she married.
As swimsuit model Claudia Jordan awaits her camera call on a Maui beach, she catches her first glimpse of the handsome man who will eventually change her life forever.
Ross Chesnut leaves his retreat in the Cascade Mountains of the Oregon Territory in the early spring of 1851 to find the band of Yanktonai Indians who raised him. His journey is filled with danger from the deceit of white men and the vengeance of Indians.
Reunited at last with her husband, Ross, Marlette faced another raw, savage westward journey to the untamed Oregon Territory. A legend on the frontier, only Ross could guide the wagon train that was taking them across the vast, unmapped continent.
Marlette Brightwood had come inexperienced and unafraid from a sheltered life in Philadelphia to the unmapped, untamed Oregon Territory in 1842. Her guide was Ross Chesnut, a legend on the frontier.
All Abigail had to still her fears of the unknown were love, and trust in Ross Gallagher, the handsome, reckless Irishman who had snatched her from her New England family to make her his wife.
