In Virginia City, in a cheap saloon, Cameron found the one man whose memory lived in her heart. The gentle beauty had left the convent where she had been raised to meet, at last, the father she had never known. But his sudden death thrust her into a frontier town run by gamblers, drifters and outlaws. Frightened but proud, she bought a gun and learned how to use it.
Then she came face to face with the man who had awakened her from shy girlhood to sudden passion. Now, he was a gunslinger who called himself Colt. Now, he seemed hungry to use her in a deadly game of greed and revenge!
Ruth Ryan Langan (aka Ruth Langan) is an award-winning author of romance novels. She is a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award winner and has twice been nominated for Romantic Times Reviwers' Choice Awards, for Jade and Return of the Prodigal Son. She has spent much of her career writing historical romance novels for the Harlequin Historicals line of category romances. Many of her book are set in medieval times, while others are western romances. She has also written some contemporary romances, and often includes elements of suspense in her novels.
Langan began her writing career in secret. Her family discovered her writings when her children came home unexpectedly from school one day and found her writing. When Langan's husband was told of her hobby, he bought her an electric typewriter "because 'writers need tools'". Her first book was published by Silhouette Books in 1981 after an editor picked it out of their slush pile. After the first sale was completed, Langan got an agent.
Langan is a charter member of the Romance Writers of America. She has five children and lives with her husband in Michigan.
This was the first romance novel I ever read. I loved it, helped that I was a teenager and never read anything of its kind before. But reread it now that I'm married and have three children, and still think its a great book to read.