The Captive’s Heart

A sweeping historical romance of love, courage, and the spirit that binds two worlds, set in 1835.

When Luella Carter escapes a cruel betrothal in the rugged wilderness of the Blue Ridge Mountains, she becomes both hunter and hunted — until she crosses paths with Tayané, a Cherokee warrior bound by honor and haunted by loss. Taken from all she has known, Luella becomes Adohi — “the one who comes from the woods” — a name born of survival, strength, and destiny.

As the two journey deeper into the mountains, the boundary between captor and captive begins to fade. Through storm and silence, danger and discovery, they forge a bond neither can deny — one written not by the laws of men, but by the voice of the land itself.

When the past returns to claim her and blood is spilled beneath the pines, Adohi must choose between the life she fled and the one she has come to love.

Set against the untamed beauty of early America, The Captive’s Heart is a tale of endurance, healing, and the wild, unyielding power of love — a story of two souls bound by fate and freed by the mountains that remember them.