Nalin hardly remembered her life as Lisa Thomson. Taken by outlaws, she escaped into the burning desert to be rescued by a Comanche chieftain. Nalin now belonged to the Comanches, just as her heart belonged to their fiercely courageous leader. To the warrior Quanah, Nalin seemed at first only a girl yet he knew his heart was being captured by her beauty and bravery. He vowed to honor her as his wife and to protect her from harm. But her own people wanted Lisa back. They could not forgive her love for a Comanche. To save her happiness and the husband who was more to her than her own life, Nalin knew she must stand beside him through any danger, any hardship, any test of the love that bound them together, forever as one. (less)