Catherine Burke, a nineteenth-century artist, has aforbidden affair with Atacar, an Apache prisoner ofwar. She keeps a heart-gripping journal oftheir erotic yet tragic liaison. Over a hundred years later, museum director MandyCooper searches for the missing journal and tumblesinto an affair of her own--with Jared Cabrillo,Atacar's dangerously seductive great-great nephew.www.cheriefeather.com