Savage Destiny

Voted BEST WESTERN SERIES by Romantic Times Magazine in 1986, the Savage Destiny books chronicle the lives, love, and adventures of Abbie and Zeke Monroe. To celebrate the publication of the seventh, and last, book of the series in 1996, Zebra reprinted all of the original six books, with attractive new covers. You can now order these books directly from Amazon.com simply by clicking on the highlighted titles!

• Book 1: SWEET PRAIRIE PASSION. The ninth book that I wrote, SWEET PRAIRIE PASSION was the first to be published. It was also the beginning of Abigail Trent's great adventure. The year was 1845, and Abbie was riding west in her father's covered wagon when she first met rugged half-breed scout Zeke Monroe. Zeke, raised by his white father in Tennessee, wouldn't rest until he found his Cheyenne mother--and his destiny. Abbie was determined to ride by his side, joining two warring cultures with one passionate heart.

• Book 2: RIDE THE FREE WIND. Together, Abbie and Zeke faced peril; together they tasted rapture, until Zeke found his mother's people, and turned his back on the white man's world. To stay with her love, now called White Eagle, Abbie became Cheyenne, too, never to return to the land of her birth. Yet, even if it meant warfare and death, she knew she belonged to her Cheyenne brave for all time.

• Book 3: RIVER OF LOVE. Trouble was brewing across the plains to challenge Abbie and Lone Eagle and test their love. Yet even as the hardships of frontier life grew, nothing could diminish their passion. Together, they must fight to forge a dynasty in a harsh, unyielding wilderness, and fulfill their daring dreams.

• Book 4: EMBRACE THE WILD LAND. Even in the peaceful New Mexico territory, Abbie and Lone Eagle couldn't escape the violence of a country in upheaval as the Civil War raged across the nation. Fate thrust them apart as Lone Eagle was forced to leave Abigail and face the horrors of the white man's war.

• Book 5: CLIMB THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN. Though many years had passed since Abigail Trent's gaze first locked with Lone Eagle's over a crimson campfire, passion still burned between them. Yet their lives together continued to bring ever greater challenges. The Civil War over, homesteaders invaded the rugged frontier, determined to wrest the land from the "heathens." Together, Abbie and Lone Eagle struggled to hold onto their way of life.

• Book 6: MEET THE NEW DAWN. The relentless tide of progress, in the form of the railroads, forced the Plains Indians to battle for their freedom and their very lives. Abbie and Lone Eagle were forced to part once again. All they had to sustain them was the desperate hope that they would be reunited once more.

• Book 7: EAGLE'S SONG. After I finished Book 6, I was so overwhelmed with emotion that I had to get away from the Monroe family. The first six books were published between 1983 and 1985, and it took me eleven years to walk back into the lives of all the characters who had become so dear to me. There was Abbie, waiting for me to finish her story, and also tell the stories of some of her grandchildren. In EAGLE'S SONG, the clan gathered for a long-awaited reunion on their sprawling Colorado ranch, but old hatreds and new passions exploded...in heartbreaking tragedy for eldest son Wolf's Blood; in a forbidden love affair between Abbie's wild grandson Zeke and a rancher's headstrong daughter; and in an agonzing choice Wolf's Blood's young son must make--a choice that could seal his father's fate.

Please note: Though readers want me to continue the stories of Abbie's grandchildren, EAGLE'S SONG is truly the end of the series.