title: Slade's Woman
author: James, BJ
description: MR. AMERICA
  
  Name: Hunter Slade
  
  Past: A cruel world that scorned his heritage.
  
  Present: The peace of his work. The seclusion of his mountain home.
  
  Future: The woman he'd allowed into his private world.
  
  Rugged half-breed hunter Slade had learned the hard way that friends were few and far between. A difficult boyhood made him a tough, reclusive man--a man unafraid of anything, dependent on no one, until he rescued a delicate damsel in distress ....
  
  Beautiful Beth Warren said she'd abandoned her wealthy life-style to escape the grasp of her shallow ex-husband. Hunter saw she lived a life of hardship, and he reached out to her. . . offered her a place to hide. But deep down he knew a day would come when Beth would leave their safe haven ....