Destiny's Bride Author:Diana Stuart Destiny's Bride — Charlotte was promised to a man she'd never met, and like a proper lady she traveled West to wed him. But between Virginia's Tidewater and far California lay a vast wilderness--an untamed land of raw and hungry men, trappers and gamblers, settlers and soldiers, a nation on the move... — She left Virginia a girl; and in the wild ... more »embrace of this new land she became a woman. Under the burning touch of a man called Jarn she discovered a passionate and shameful love---a love that was to lead her beyond he heart's dream, to the Valley of the Ice Moon, where desire and destiny are one.« less