The Cherokee Trail
It was no work for a woman. That's what they told Mary Breydon  when she came to manage a rundown stagecoach station on the Cherokee  Trail. But Mary had no choice. Her fine Virginia home burned to ashes  in the Civil War and her husband was brutally shot down on the way to  Colorado. She needed to make a new beginning for herself and her young  daughter on the raw frontier. Isolated in an untamed land, their life  at the station was achingly hard and they faced the constant danger of  attacks by outlaws and marauding Indians. Yet, with the support of a  spirited Irish woman, a fearless orphan boy, and, most of all, the  mysterious gunman Temple Boone, Mary found the courage to shape her  station into a vital stop on America's westward journey. Until the  vicious murderer whose bloody rampages had stained her past suddenly  stalked Mary Breydon to Cherokee Station.