Rio Grande (Stewart Women) - Softcover

"Matt Braun is one of the best!" --Don Coldsmith, author of The Spanish Bit series "He tells it straight-- and he tells it well." --Jory Sherman, author of Grass Kingdom

Tom Stuart takes risks--in war, in love, and in card games, from St. Louis to Mexico. And the hard-drinking, fast-talking steamboat captain--who knows every shoal and eddy of the Rio Grande from the Big Bend to Brownsville--has a dream of building a shipping empire that will span the windswept Gulf of Mexico to rich, exotic New Orleans. But this is a kind of gamble he's never faced before: with a woman to win, a woman to lose, and a dangerous man standing in the way. Now, Stuart is plunged into a fight that will engulf his very soul. And to the winner will go the mighty Rio Grande...