Bartering Innocence

John Jericho is fascinated when he rides into the Indian encampment to barter for a woman to keep his bed warm during the long winter and he spies a redheaded captive fighting with the three women who own her.

He is amused that she is able to hold them off, but is aware that if he doesn't do something to protect her, the Indians would soon be torturing her to death.

He picks her up, and drops her face down over his bent knee and proceeds to spank her. John warns the girl to be silent once he puts her down, but soon learns the female is feisty, and he is forced to give her another sound spanking before she will give in and behave herself.

Susan is shocked and shamed when the white trapper barters to buy her from He Who Wears Red. The Indian brave murdered her husband and gave her to his three wives as a slave, and Susan decided she would rather be dead than serve them another day.

However, the trapper offered rescue, even if he was foolish enough to think he could force her to share his bed. Susan soon learned she had no escape... and she would have to trust John to keep his word not to force himself on her.

Discovering Susan was still an innocent in spite of being married was a shock to John, but he figured he could persuade the feisty redhead to join him in bed... and while he was at it, he was going to teach her some manners!