ALONE ON THE FROZEN KANSAS PRAIRIE Charity Burkhouser didn't stand a chance. Without a man's help the beautiful widow would lose the homestead she'd traveled so far to claim and worked so hard to hold. When fate dropped a savagely wounded stranger on her doorstep, she knew she must fight to make him her own. She challenged the two bold Indian maidens entranced by the stranger's beautiful blond hair, and defied the town gossips who were shocked to discover a handsome man living in her cabin, sleeping in her bed - without benefit of clergy! But most difficult of all, for the sake of the future fearless Charity would have to confront the wild demons and beloved ghosts of Beau Claxton's past. She swore it wasn't a matter of love; it was a matter of survival. And she was determined to save him, to keep him, to make him...PASSION'S CAPTIVE
Author
Lori Copeland was born on 12 June 1941. She had a relatively late start in writing, breaking into publishing in 1982 when she was already forty years old. Over the next dozen years, her romance novels achieved much success, as was evidenced by her winning the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, The Holt Medallion, and Walden Books' Best Seller award. She has been inducted into the Missouri Writers Hall of Fame. Despite her success in more mainstream romantic fiction, in 1995, she decided to switch focus. Her subsequent books have been in the relatively new subgenre of Christian romance. She has also collaborated with authors Angela Elwell Hunt or Virginia Smith on a series of Christian romance novels. Lori and her husband of over forty years, Lance, live in Springfield, Missouri, surrounded by the beautiful Ozarks. They have three grown sons, three daughter-in-laws, and six wonderful grandchildren, and two great-granddaughters. She and her husband are very involved in their church, and active in supporting mission work in Mali, West Africa.
