Warrior Creek: a love story

She Brought Light to His Darkest Day

The Belle of Southern Aristocracy
In the Upcountry of South Carolina in the bitter aftermath of war, Goldie Manning, at just twenty-three, has become the de facto matriarch of a ragged and fearful flock of womenfolk. Abandoned by their men for war and the hereafter, their ancestral home in ruins, it falls to Goldie to protect her family from the ravages of war, starvation, roving packs of Yankee of bummers, and the menacing threat brewing in the infamous Dark Corner, a remote mountainous area overrun by deserters and cutthroats.
One morning amid the mist blanketing the Blue Ridge Mountains, she stumbles upon the ghostly figures of four hanged partisan rangers. To her amazement one ranger, Major General Sloan McKnight, barely clings to life. Quick to act, she shoots the rope from which he hangs, severing it.
An irrevocable bond is forged as she tends his wounds, berates him into taking nourishment, and commandeers his will to live until he is fit enough to reclaim it.

The Rebel Ranger
Major General Sloan McKnight, partisan ranger and once shining example of the Southern beaux sabreur, is a hardened Civil War veteran, a man of action with little taste nor talent for being doted on like an invalid. But Goldie Manning, his angel of mercy, is an entrancing green-eyed culinary sorceress whose biscuits are nothing short of God’s grace on a plate, with an indomitable spirit that is like balm to his battered soul.
Eager to repay her charity, even in his withered condition, he endeavors to ease the many burdens weighing on her slim shoulders. It is his military expertise, however, which becomes his most vital attribute as his enemies plot to lure Goldie into their snare. Soon the isolated wilds of the Upcountry of South Carolina erupt in a blood-feud as Sloan risks everything to save the woman he loves and mete out his special brand of vengeance on the band of bushwhackers who dared to string him up and leave him for dead.