It was no work for a woman. That's what they told Mary Breydon when she
came to manage a rundown stagecoach station on the Cherokee Trail. But Mary had
no choice. Her fine Virginia home burned to ashes in the Civil War and her
husband was brutally shot down on the way to Colorado. She needed to make a new
beginning for herself and her young daughter on the raw frontier. Isolated in
an untamed land, their life at the station was achingly hard and they faced the
constant danger of attacks by outlaws and marauding Indians. Yet, with the
support of a spirited Irish woman, a fearless orphan boy, and, most of all, the
mysterious gunman Temple Boone, Mary found the courage to shape her station
into a vital stop on America's westward journey. Until the vicious murderer
whose bloody rampages had stained her past suddenly stalked Mary Breydon to
Cherokee Station.