Mountain Laurel Author:Jude Deveraux Captain Ring Montgomery was handsome, a skilled rider, a crack shot, knowlegeable about the western territories, popular with the men and their ladies-in short, everything colonel harrison, commanding officer of Fort Breck, was not. And that was reason enough for the colonel to saddle montgomery with the most peculiar assignment ever to come hi... more »s way: to escort an opera singer into the gold fields of the Colorado Territory so she could sing for the miners.« less