The Captive's Heart

Georgia, 1834.
Beautiful, headstrong Luella Carter has never known freedom. At fifteen, her father has traded her future to a wealthy cousin old enough to be her grandfather—a marriage of convenience meant to save the family name. But when the carriage bound for Richmond breaks down on a lonely Southern road, Luella dares the unthinkable. She runs.

Alone and desperate, she's captured by Tayané, a young Cherokee man with eyes as dark and fierce as the wilderness itself. To him, she is a burden—a stranger from a world that has taken everything from his. But as danger closes in and the two are forced to rely on each other, desire sparks between them—wild, undeniable, and forbidden.

What begins as captivity becomes awakening. Torn between a life of obedience and a love that defies every rule of her world, Luella must decide whether to surrender to her heart… or lose it forever.

The Captive's Heart: A Story of Forbidden Love in the Old South is a sweeping tale of passion and peril, where love burns brightest against the darkness of duty and desire.