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Raw courage and romance in the Old West.

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In 1843, Comanche Indians kidnapped sixteen-year-old Lidia from her home in Mapimi, Mexico. She had been the wife of her beloved Ernesto for just eleven days. Terrified and heartbroken, she knew that few women ever returned to normal life after being a Comanche captive. Forced to become the wife of Tokono, a Comanche warrior, her life was full of horror and tears. When Tokono was killed in battle, Lidia and two other captive girls were forced on a march that almost killed them. Hunters from Fort Bent, Colorado rescued the girls from their captors who sold them for a horse and a mule.
John Hawken, a mountain man, worked at Fort Bent as a gunsmith after the fur trade ended. There, he and Lidia fell in love. This is the true story of their tempestuous life together, fraught with danger, adventure and romance.

They watched in disbelief as Comanches came up the mountain and went into every house, dragging women out and forcing them down to the town square. Soon they would reach Amanda’s. The two women backed away from the door and tried to hide. They held on to each other and were very quiet as the Indians came closer, but when a painted savage opened the door, they screamed.