Annie Lash

STUBBORN, BEAUTIFUL, PASSIONATE .. THAT WAS ANNIE LASH! When her parents died, lovely Annie Lash was left alone in old St. Louis -- a prize catch for the elderly suitors lined up at her door. But the willful lass would have none of them, for she yearned for a man who could love her completely -- and whom she could love in return. Then a young frontiersman named Jefferson Merrick offered her a chance to escape the town and live in a distant settlement. Visualizing the life on the banks of the wide Missouri, Annie accepted -- never realizing that she would have to face hostile Indians, river…