The Silent Rose

She didn't know what it was like to live . . . until he came along and showed her how.

Ellie Rose Bergmann, a mute woman, is abducted by outlaws and taken deep into the wilderness far from her home and her family in the East. She is found and rescued by Hamish, a mountain man, and his two companions, a man called Jedidiah and a Cheyenne woman called Laughing Woman. Knowing Ellie Rose cannot stay with them, Hamish escorts her to a town and persuades her to send a telegram to her husband, Zac...