In Victorian England, Lucilla Lockwood had been the rebellious, uninhibited daughter of an aristocratic family.Torn from her stately home, she escaped and began a desperate journey that would take her from the wealthiest levels of European society, through the splendor and poverty of Czarist Russia, to a bleak frontier mining town in Colorado where she must first struggle for survival and then for happiness.
Charlotte Prentiss is best known for her epic prehistory novels. She wrote only one historical romance, rising high above others of its kind. Compulsively readable, global in scope, and richly detailed, it portrays a courageous young women who plunges fearlessly into passion in an attempt to sate the love-hunger in her heart.
"Retro Romance--Perfect book to bring to the beach." Amazon Review "Very passionate writing - can't put it down " Susan M.