A PROUD, LONELY MAN

Colonel Samuel Shelby, special agent for President Madison, was given the most dangerous assignment of his career as the War of 1812 loomed over the Mississippi valley. Embittered and cynical after the betrayal of his treacherous first wife, Samuel vowed never to love again. But when he met a stunning French émigré, he was bewitched. Yet he shamed her with an offer to make her his mistress, never his wife.

A SPOILED, RECKLESS BEAUTY

Olivia St.Etienne was as fiery as her flaming hair, as headstrong as her aristocratic ancestors. At home in silk and satin, surrounded by fawning suitors, the St. Louis belle hid a secret life until the dark, arrogant colonel accidently uncovered it and ruined her reputation. Fleeing into the wilderness, Olivia--under the tutelage of an old mountain man--forged a new identity as a frontier woman who could ride through a buffalo stampede and outwit a band of bloodthirsty Osage renegades.

From the ballrooms of Washington to frontier St. Louis, up the mighty Missouri and down the great Mississippi to besieged New Orleans, Samuel and Olivia survived a war to share a love as turbulent and...
DEEP AS THE RIVERS.