The Hollow Mountains

**Samantha Allyn was an innocent when she was captured by the Apaches.** By the time she was returned to the white world, she was a woman, her body brutally used but still enticing, her spirit cruelly wounded but still stubbornly strong as **she faced a society that welcomed her with false kindness and masked condemnation.**

**Lieutenant Tom Royal was the man who was to have married her, and suddenly found he could not.** Torn between his vows as an officer and a gentleman and his primal male emotions, he found escape in the spreading conflagration of battle as redman and white man clashed in the great struggle for the west.

**Both these people -- a fiercely courageous woman and a desperately tormented man -- had to find their destinies in a time of testing in an untamed land, and in the uncharted regions of their own innermost hearts....**