For Love of Davy

The eighteen seventies were a time of transition and upheaval. The violence and bloodshed that once plagued the Civil War battlegrounds now plagued the Indian territories of the west. The Shepherds were not untouched by the turmoil of these times. Lost to them were both a friend and a child when a whole tribe was massacred. Laura Shepherd surrendered her heart and soul to her young husband, the joy of her life. Destined to share him with his large family, her times alone with him were always too few. Then he was gone. Bereaved, how could she continue? Roy Shepherd promised his brother he would care for Laura but she vowed that not another man would ever touch her. Ann Shepherd held all men in disdain for not measuring up to her beloved brother. Nick Gaylord was perhaps the only man that Ann's spurn did not affect and he understood her as no one else could. A little boy restored to the Shepherd family knew not who these strangers were. The elderly, blind woman he called 'Nan' was all the family he had known or could remember. How could she have sent him away? And so the Shepherd family saga continues.