Review: Loved it
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 14, 2011
It's been a while since I've read a contemporary romance with a Native American hero, and I really loved this one. I often search out multicultural/interracial romances with a white woman and a non-white male hero, and I find that Fran Lee writes some of the best of that theme. She never lets me down, and I have to put Woman on Fire up there withDictated by Fate(white woman Hispanic male) andA Brief Moment of Pleasure(white woman Asian male).The hero Az has hired Chy as the new NA studies teacher at a small res school, assuming from her name that Chy is a NA like himself. Az thinks the res has no room or need for whites and also believes that white and red should not mix. Having hired Chy sight unseen and based only on her outstanding qualifications and last name, Az is angry and dumbfounded to see this red-haired Anglo is the new teacher. He is also floored by the immedediate sexual attraction he feels for her.Their first meeting was great, the sexual tension heavy and tense. I loved how tall and intimidating Az is, how he advances into the classroom, unbelieving eyes trained on this gorgeous teacher, as he backs Chy up against a desk.  Soon he finds his hands on her waist and can't seem to let go of her. There's something about a man like that- so male, in charge, tall and handsome, long dark hair, intense and glittering black eyes. Chy is overwhelmed at first but soon stands her ground, telling him she intends to stay on at the school as the NAS teacher, despite his feelings otherwise.With Chy having no place in town to stay, Az takes her to the home he shares with his mother Maude. Maude is an awesome character. I loved her. She likes Chy right away, even broadly hinting for Az to make a move, to get busy and give her some grandbabies. Maude fixes Chy a room up across the hall from Az, which leads to some more delicious sexual tension, seeing Az only in pj bottoms, that hot brown skin stretched taut over tight abs, and long dark hair falling down his back. Man!I loved the sexual chemistry between Az and Chy. I probably loved this more than the sex scenes, which were hot. I love it when the hero and heroine fight the attraction at first, struggling to find excuses why not to give into need and desire, only to have that need building and growing, ready to tear free from whatever tenuous hold that may be desperately keeping it at bay. One of my favorite scenes is when Chy tells Az that they can't act on this attraction, that he is her boss, and as she moves around him to go upstairs, he grabs her wrist and whirls her around, right into his arms and then proceeds to devour her mouth. What a John Wayne move! I loved this very manly, alpha male move.Az is so sexy, primal, overwhelmingly going for what he wants, and he wants and intends to have Chy. For the first time in his life, he's found the one for him, the only one, the one who is his woman. He thinks he owns Chy, not in a bad way, just that she is his, that he controls her desires, that she burns for him. He soon realizes, when she moves out of his house, that he is the one owned, that he would beg to have her back. And he is very charming using his native customs to get her back.If you want a hot, sweet love story with an incredibly sexy NA hero, this story is for you. A great read for me in many ways.