Wild Wind Westward

Wild Wind Westward

Vanessa Royall

Vanessa Royall

Two star-crossed lovers follow their hearts from Scandinavia to Civil War-era America in a sweeping tale from the bestselling author of Flames of Desire. Kristin Arnesdatter has hair like the summer sun. Her eyes reflect the clear blue Norwegian skies. Her beauty is a blessing and a curse. She is to be Gustav Rolfson's reluctant bride, despite her heart being forever bound to Eric Starbane. Eric has fled his homeland with a price on his head and vengeance in his heart. He will make his way in America, an alien land torn apart by war. He will win honor there, and prepare for greater battles, all for the sake of reclaiming his beloved's heart. Will Kristin and Eric find each other in a vast and divided country? Or are they destined to remain forever apart? Wild Wind Westward is the searing saga of a love whose flames will not be extinguished.
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Flames of Desire

Flames of Desire

Vanessa Royall

Vanessa Royall

From the author of The Passionate and the Proud, a saga of love and rebellion sweeping from the green hills of Scotland to the shores of colonial America. In eighteenth-century Scotland, Selena MacPherson is the proud princess of Coldstream Castle. She's never met a man who doesn't desire her, but she has yet to meet the man she desires in return. Royce Cambell is the fabled son of a ruthless Highland clan. He has fleets and warriors ready to do his bidding and his frightening legends glitter about him like a cloak. Royce is promised to Veronica Blakemore, a woman of fire and ice, but when he meets Selena at an Edinburgh ball, there is no denying the burning promise of ecstasy between them. But only in the new world, across raging seas, does that promise have the chance to be fulfilled. Set in the exhilarating time of the American Revolution, Flames of Desire is a rousing tale of pride, passion, and a love triangle that...
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Firebrand's Woman

Firebrand's Woman

Vanessa Royall

Vanessa Royall

From the bestselling author of Flames of Desire comes a sweeping tale of the American frontier and an everlasting love forged in a time of war. After losing her Chickasaw father and white mother to Andrew Jackson's merciless soldiers, Gyva is cruelly banished from her tribe. Forced to live as an exile in the foreign world of white men, she vows to return to her people, for pride and for love. Firebrand, the legendary Chickasaw chief, has waged war against the flood of white settlers forcing them westward on the Trail of Tears. He has sworn to defend his people and their land to the death, sworn with the power of his love for Gyva that he will push back the invaders for the sake of a new life with his one true love. Rich in historical detail and pulsing with the red-hot passion of two indomitable spirits, Firebrand's Woman brings a lost world to vivid, unforgettable life.
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The Passionate and the Proud

The Passionate and the Proud

Vanessa Royall

Vanessa Royall

Beyond the majestic Rockies lay the promise of land, the promise of love. Beautiful Emmalee Alder was escaping a Cincinnati orphanage when a black-eyed rogue spirited her aboard a Missouri-bound riverboat. Blind to Garn Lander's true passion, she does what she must to escape his bold advances; she sells herself into servitude to a wagon train heading West. Obsessed by a proud dream of independence, swept-up in the fever of land rush, she has yet to learn that claiming land was only half the battle. There is farming, ranching, and bone-deep toil. And there is Garn, the man who may just help her grasp her golden future.
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