Wild Sweet Wilderness

The train of wagons, carts and men on horseback were heading towards the land beyond the wide Mississippi. Berry Rose Warfield was accompanying her young, pregnant stepmother, Rachel, who was only a few years older than her. Asa, Berry's father was a ruthless drunk, a slave-driver whose main aim was to secure the five hundred acres of good forest land rich enough to grow a tobacco crop. Rachel feared Asa would sell Berry to a trader but Berry was determined to let no man abuse her any more. Simon Witcher, silently watched as Berry fought to defend herself from the wolves of lust and secretly wished he could make her his own. As the story progresses, Berry falls in love with Simon and her heroic effort to save Simon from Linc Smith, the mad riverman spreads up and down the Mississippi river like petals in the wind. As they kiss, deep in the wilderness blossoms a love sweeter than the honey of the wild honeysuckles and stronger than the flames of the wild, wild fire!