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**Trial By Fire. . .** Moonfeather had seen her Shawnee people execute a man by fire before. When she discovers a captive Englishman about to suffer the same fate, she does not intend to see it again. Even an enemy deserves a warrior's death. Her only choice is a brazen one: to claim the reckless man to be her husband. **And Desire. . .** Viscount Brandon may have been spared a cruel death, but the son of a Scottish earl now endured a different torment. For despite their intimate quarters, the wildly beautiful Moonfeather has no intention of consummating their marriage. Yet the two cannot help but grow closer. And as Brandon discovers that he and Leah Moonfeather Stewart have far more in common than their intense attraction, he is determined to bring her to England as his wife. But in the face of more treachery, Moonfeather may have to save the day once more. . . 106,515 Words ** ### Review Judith E. French is the winner of* Romantic Times' Career Achievement Award *                                                  for American Historicals.* ** ** ** ** *                                          * *                                                         **** ** Nominated for *Affaire de Coeur's Best Historical of the Year . . . * *                                      *** * * ### From the Author Four Sisters . . .  all sired by a daring Scottish nobleman, born of different mothers and separated by nationality, by culture, and by station in life--bound by an enchanted necklace passed down through the mists of time--a necklace that carries legendary powers of life and death. "MOONFEATHER" - Book 1 in the Indian Moon Trilogy Maryland Colony 1706 :  Moonfeather, the lovechild of a Scottish earl and an Indian holy woman, risks her life to save a yellow-haired English man.  She rescues him from death by torture at the hands of a Shawnee war party by claiming him as her husband. Although she is tempted by his intense blue eyes, yellow hair, and broad shoulders, she is determined that the "marriage" be in name only until she can free him.  But Brandon kidnaps her and carries her back across the Atlantic to his father's estate, determined to claim her as his lawful bride.  Betrayed by the man she has come to love, Moonfeather's heart  is broken. She is a Peace Woman among the Shawnee.  She is sworn to serve her tribe and now, with the invasion of the white strangers, they need her wisdom more than ever.  Somehow she must find a way to return to her own people.  She must fulfill her destiny.  As she struggles to learn the ways of a foreign world, attempts are made on her life that make her doubt Brandon's love.  In desperation, she seeks out the father who abandoned her and finds the courage to trust her husband again to stand with him against treachery that threatens to destroy them both. *