Ellen Michaels on the Cover of Fire Of The Andes by Juanita Coulson

Title: Fire Of The Andes
Author: Juanita Coulson
Publication Year: 1979
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Cover Model: Ellen Michaels

I am featured as the Cover Model for this historical romance novel, Fire of The Andes by Juanita Coulson, which was published in 1979 by Ballantine Books and is set during the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.

Elenor was the most beautiful woman in a land that touched the stars - the high and exotic Andes. Betrothed to a Spanish conqueror, Ignacio, the laws of Elenor's childhood demanded that she fulfill her promise of marriage. But Elenor is fiercely independent and isolated, a combination that fuels her to commit adultery when her heart is captured by a noble wanderer, an Incan prince.

Yet her true destiny is to become the savior of her land … and a woman possessed of a golden treasure of love.

Caught in the middle of a brutal war between a collapsing empire and ruthless conquistadors, she must make a fateful choice. Her dangerous passion for her royal Incan lover becomes a flame of rebellion, driving her to risk her life to forge an enduring peace for her people.