Ride Like the Wind is the fifth book of the series "Let the Wildflowers Bloom." The heroine, Victoria Alexandra Highland, receives enlightening information from her dead mother, Sarah Margaret Mathieson, which ignites a journey west for Edwin Morgan and Inspector Southerland, hunting the slayer Frances Highland. Lorenzo Dow Parrish is hired to keep a watchful eye on Alex. Time with Lorenzo initiates a new facet of her character. The men that love Alexandra, Mac and J.W. continue to be center stage in her life and she commits herself to one man, hoping to build a new life together, away from the Good Hour brothel and focused on love. A personal mishap causes her heartbreak. Alex is drawn into a volatile situation at the brothel. Her actions make it necessary to Ride Like the Wind.