title: Touch the Dawn
author: Kitzmiller, Chelley
description: BY LOVE UNMASKED
  
  Anyone who met beautiful young Heller Peyton could see she was a perfect lady, a picture of exquisite taste and flawless manners. No one would guess she was a daughter of shame, raised in the sordid slums of New York and come to San Francisco to escape her past.
  
  But one man had the power to strip away her pretense. He, too, hid his true self. For this handsome, daring man of mystery was Joaquin Murieta--called a hero by some, and by others, a dangerous outlaw--wreaking vengeance for a monstrous crime.
  
  Joaquin Murieta turned Heller from a lady into a woman with his fiery touch...She made him forget his hate in the arms of love...as this man and woman with so much to lose risked all they had, to win all they passionately desired....