 NIGHT
FLOWER
April 1990
Warner Books
ISBN
978-0446346467
There were those in Texas who declared no man with a knife or a
gun could defeat Lee Velasquez, a loner as lean and deadly as a
panther and feared to be a bloodthirsty scalper and renegade
pistolero. There were others who whispered no man, drunk or sober,
could resist Melanie Fleming, the scandal-born daughter of a New
Orleans placee, the petite yet fiery crusader for the blazing
banners of abolition and women's rights, a sensuous hoyden with big,
gold-coin eyes and a long, silky wealth of ebony hair.
While she fought for justice, he rode alone, outside the law. They
were enemies: He hated her Indian and African blood; she despised
his arrogant Spanish pride. But in his arms her stubborn resistance
would melt in a heedless torrent of flame-hot kisses -- and be swept
away in a single, unsparing act of rapturous surrender…
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