title: Dark Horseman
author: Howard, Charisse
description: A romance of 1820s Virginia. When Victoria Allen learns her beloved Belmont has gone up in flames, she jumps on a horse and races home to her injured grandfather. How can such a headstrong belle make any gentleman a proper wife? Grandall's nephew Charles is eager to find out...until the old man hires a mysterious stranger, Ned Finn, to run the farm. Will their battle save Belmont or destroy it?