title: Endless Night
author: Pellicane, Patricia
description: The roar of defeat echoes from Shiloh to Gettysburg as the Civil War enters its death throes. But for one man and woman, the battle has just begun...
  
  With the blood of the Yankee who attacked her on her hands, Confederate widow Ellie Potter flees her Georgia home aboard a California-bound wagon train...unaware that she is under suspicion for a crime of a very different nature...
  
  Ric Tanner believes that Oliver Potter is still alive. And he believes that Ellie Potter will lead him to his quarry. To bring to justice the sadistic man who killed his brother, Tanner will follow Ellie to the ends of the earth, if he must. For his is a heart hardened by hatred. .. until he catches up with Ellie, and finds himself moved by her gentleness and beauty.
  
  But the road to vengeance is long and lonely, and Ric's ruthless obsession could destroy a love more precious than all the victories in the world. Somehow, he must find a way to ease his bitter soul if he and Ellie are to turn the endless night into a dawn of hope and passionate promise....