Summer's Promise

From the back of the book: When handsome French trapper Daniel Ledet stepped out of the frontier forest, he reignited desires Charoline Fielding had banished eight years before. Yet she thought that no man could ever love her -- not since her fall from grace. Caroline was wrong. Daniel had never wanted anyone as much as he did this breathtakingly beautiful Englishwoman who had bravely settled in a dangerous land. She had been burned by her passions before, but Daniel knew he must have her forever. What could he do to convince her that this was love . . . and their life together would last even longer than summer's promise. What strong characters both Daniel and Caroline were!!! Even Caroline's sister, Hannah, showed no backbone at first but by the end of the story, she was also a character of strength. Both sisters were forced to go to this unsettled area of a foreign country and make the best of it. Hannah was married to a man whose only concern was money and power. The women and Hannah's children were pretty much left on their own most of the time while Hannah's husband took his workers and some of the soldiers from the nearby fort to cut trees. Daniel fell for Caroline immediately and, as much as he could, kept an eye on both women warning them of the dangers and how to protect themselves. In spite of this Indians raided the house abducting Hannah and her youngest daughter. When Caroline returned and discovered what had happened and Hannah's husband refused to go after them, she did - alone - until Daniel came to her rescue. What happened after that is nothing but a history lesson in the ways of the Indians and how to survive in the wilderness.