RELENTLESS
Spending ten years of your life in a small, dirty, windowless prison cell, being physically branded as a thief, and suffering the humiliation of a court martial in front of your peers is a horrible enough fate, but when it is for something you did not do, it takes a very strong man to endure.  (A strong man with the gentleness to befriend a mouse named Abner that will steel your heart.)  Framed by his superior, Major Jack Randall, Rafferty Tyler is living for one thing, revenge.  When the cell doors are opened ten years later, Rafe, and a few loyal friends from the war, head for Colorado, and Jack Randall, now a respected rancher.  Knowing that Jack was responsible for the robberies that he framed Rafe for, Rafe knows that if he puts Jack in dire financial straights, he will fall into his old habits and rob again.  What Rafe didn't count on was a young woman from Boston claiming to be Randall's long lost daughter!  Through no choice of his own, Rafe finds himself holding her hostage at his remote cabin hideout. Shea Randall had always believed that her father was an honorable man who had died before she was born.  When her mother dies tragically, Shea discovers that her father may very well be alive and living in Colorado.  Having no other family, Shea decides to travel west and learn more about what happened between her mother and father and if he even knew she existed.  Shea was not prepared to be kidnapped and held hostage by a man who had connections with her father years before.  It is a difficult road to travel, but eventually Sheas's feelings of anger and mistrust turn to understanding, respect and love for Rafe and his inturn slowly turn from his feelings of hate, revenge and unworthiness to love for Shea.  Both, however, must still deal with Jack Randall - Rafe's nemesis and Shea's father.Ms. Potter's most intense novel to date.! Ms. Potter begins with characters racked with gut-wrenching emotions that they are clearly able to overcome, leaving you with a renewed faith in human endurance. After Relentless, Ms. Potter will surely be in a class by herself! Pat Potter soars above the rest!Diane Potwin  --Copyright © 1994-97 Literary Times, Inc.  All rights reserved--FromLiterary Times