Sam's Treasure

Love is the greatest treasure of all... Home. Samantha Carleton dreamed of such a wonderful place, somewhere permanent, somewhere safe to simply be herself. Her life wasn’t easy by any measure, traveling from place to place with her father, always to her knees in creeks and mud, hot on the trail of the next gold nugget. Danger lurked in her day to day existence, dependant upon the rough miners and greedy outlaws they encountered believing her to be a teenage boy. Ever since she budded into a beautiful young woman, Sam’s pa dressed her as male to keep her from unwanted attention. But when his love of whiskey causes him to ramble on about his ‘son’ Sam’s keen ability to locate gold, it all backfires and Sam finds herself taken hostage by the worst kind of lowdown criminals. Shortly after Sheriff Trace Wallace agrees to go undercover to find out who’s been jumping claims, he overhears a plan cooked up by two lazy greenhorn outlaws to kidnap and enslave an older boy to pan for them. Rather than see the kid who is labeled a menace about town placed in jeopardy, he offers his help in bringing Sam to heel. But Sam is no picnic to handle and in their many struggles Trace soon discovers the unruly boy is in fact a beautiful but tough woman who not only helps him bring in the bad guys, but also ensnares his heart.