Days of Valor Author:Willo Davis Roberts Joel was still alive...and still her lover. Jessie, beautiful Jessica, who thought she had lost the man she loved, found him again. Now they moved westward, by wagon train, a grueling, torturous trip that only the strong survived. They married on the trail, Jessie and her Joel, and he promised her the world. "When we... more » get to California," he told her over and over, "I will build us a big house and you will have fine clothes and jewels. I swear it, Jessie." But all Jessie cared about was Joel and his love. His touch burned her flesh, into her very soul. As for Joel, his love for Jessie was beyond description, and true to his word he made many of the dreams come true. But there were other darker and more frightening things that threatened the happiness of the Shands, things no one wanted to talk about...« less