Squire's Quest

Read Squire's Quest Storyline:

Sixteen-year-old Merlin Lachlan dreams of knight
errantry, but with only one eye, doubts he'll ever be more than a squire--a
knight-in-training. He soon has the opportunity to play the hero when he befriends
Calista Smith, a girl-child traveling alone to her father in Montana.

Eight years later Merlin receives a telegram from
Callie, a cry for help. Her father is taking her to an unknown destination,
possibly to a fate worse than death. Abandoned at the depot in Cheyenne, along and virtually penniless,
Callie finds work. When Merlin arrives he finds not a damsel in distress but a
woman standing on her own two feet. Still, she is Callie, and he has a tender
memory of her. As she has of him.

Merlin weds Callie to ensure that her father will
have no more control over her fate. Thwarted, Lem Smith seeks revenge and ends their
brief idyll with fire and blood and terror. Afterward Merlin has no memory of
her, beyond what his friends tell him. Callie is captive and helpless. Each
believes the other dead.

Time heals most wounds, but not broken hearts. Callie
escapes from her father and builds a life for herself. Merlin returns home, all
of his youthful dreams shattered. Until a child's smile awakens old memories,
and a family calls to its own.