Marilee

Her family and plantation violently destroyed by invaders, Marilee hurled herself into a part of life she had never before known. It was a life of sheer survival, across desert land and Indian territory as she headed West -- her body taken viciously by men she hated, her dreams trampled forever under the victorious hooves of Yankee horses. Slave of a Comanche chief, unwilling wife of a Mexican aristocrat, she dared not hope to ever know love -- until she met Joe Langston, a common man who hated the Old South and all it stood for, who ravaged her, humbled her...and couldn't forget her.