Fire of The Andes by Juanita Coulson, a historical romance novel, 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.