In 1846, Carolina Harper is still mourning the deaths of her husband and son when she sets out from Missouri to begin her journey along the Santa Fe Trail. Together with a freed slave, a Mexican servant, and a reserved mountain man as companions, Carolina braves a countryside fraught with disease, Indians, and the constant threat of war -- a war Carolina has mixed feelings about, having been born in the United States of Spanish descent.Carolina is convinced that this journey will be the toughest challenge of her life. But what she doesn't know is that her biggest challenge is yet to come, for she will soon come face-to-face with the most feared man in New Mexico ... her uncle -- a man who will stop at nothing in his fight to prevent the invasion of the Anglos.
- ISBN10 0812524071
- ISBN13 9780812524079
- Publish Date 15 June 2000 (first published 1 February 1999)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 May 2001
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St Martin's Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 374
- Language English