title: A Fire in the Heart
author: Rivers, Francine
description: In the lawless California wilderness, she found a new life of danger -- and desire.
  
  When her radical views scandalized Boston society, beautiful Amnesty Brown headed west to claim a dead uncle's estate in a rugged California gold town high in the Sierra Nevada.
  
  Shocked by the appalling condition at the boomtown -- and especially by handsome, high-rolling saloon owner Haydn Lomax -- Amnesty starts up her uncle's printing press, upsetting more people than she could shake a newspaper at.
  
  Lomax is impressed with her feisty ambitions, but Amnesty resists his powerful and unsettling presence. When she's suddenly caught in a deadly web of intrigue and murder, Amnesty's fearlessness wavers, and she discovers that in the protective arms of Lomax, her passions too have a mind of their own...