02038cam a2200349 4500 56992164 TxAuBib 20040218120000.0 040218s1988||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2001554434 9780671628987 pbk. $3.95 0671628984 pbk. $3.95 (OCoLC)18314805 TxAuBib Johnston, Joan, 1948- Frontier woman / Joan Johnston. New York : a division of Simon & Schuster, 1988. 393 p. ; 18 cm. Sisters of the Lone Star ; 1 The first book in the author's Sisters of the Lone Star trilogy. Sequels: Comanche woman; Texas woman. "Pocket Historical Romance"--Spine. Captured by Comanches as a boy, Jarrett Creed grew to manhood torn between two worlds. But with the young republic under siege from ravaging Mexican armies and marauding Indian tribes alike, he made his choice. Now, as a secret government mission brings the Texas Ranger to lovely Cricket Stewart's door, he must choose again. The youngest daughter of a wealthy gentleman planter, Cricket lives life as she pleases and vows never to be a wife to any man. Until the day Jarrett Creed saves her from avenging Comanches ... by claiming her as his bride. The last thing either expects is to fall in love. But as a traitorous conspiracy and a secret tragedy test their new-found union, a wild-spirited beauty and a Texas lawman will discover just how far they will o for their precious homeland ... and for a love that could free them from the sorrows of the past. 20040218. Texas Rangers. Fiction. Women pioneers Fiction. Texas Fiction. Western stories. Love stories. Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress). Sisters of the Lone Star ; 1. TXLIV