Tight, clean, flat, square and sharp book with light creasing to the spine. Reprint of the author's 1988 first bestselling romance. Mandy Ashton fled a stifling frontier existence for the glittering social whirl of Sacramento City, California?s state capital, trading childhood innocence for a woman?s burning desire and masquerade as her flighty cousin, Julia.Travis Langley, known by his Indian name, Hawk, is a white man raised by the Cheyenne, a man trying to make peace with his dual heritage. The last thing he needs is a job chaperoning Julia Aston, the California governor?s spoiled daughter. But Mandy?posing as Julia?is spirited, captivating, and irresistibly sensuous. By journey?s end, Mandy and Hawk have become helpless prisoners of a smoldering passion that nothing can kill?except, perhaps, the secret Mandy has guarded so carefully throughout the arduous days and passionate nights of their long, magnificent passage.