Drawn by troubling dreams of a handsome Indian warrior, Colleen Merrill had come westward with her brutal husband to homestead in the Montana wilderness - only to fall in love with Lieutenant Matthew Douglas, a dashing U.S. Cavalry officer.

Author Biography

Kathleen O'Neal Gear is a former state historian and archaeologist for Wyoming, Kansas, and Nebraska for the U.S. Department of the Interior. She has twice received the federal government's Special Achievement Award for "outstanding management" of our nation's cultural heritage. Kathleen O'Neal Gear and her husband, W. Michael Gear are co-authors of the First North American Series and Anasazi Mystery Series ("USA Today" bestsellers) and live in Thermopolis, Wyoming.