Review: A Fire in the Blood
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 17, 2012
I thought it was a really good book. Jesse and Lissa were really attracted to each other even though it was forbidden. Her father is trying to force her to married an older guy who can run the ranch when he dies. She has no interest in this man. So she basically chases Jesse and they end up having an affair. Jesse keeps telling her he is leaving when the job for her father is done, no matter what. Being part Indian he is not allowed to be with a white woman, and he believes she is too spoiled and can never live the hard life on his small ranch. They end up falling in love, and get caught by her father. So they are forced to marry because she is pregnant. Jesse then leaves her as he lives a life of a gunman. He does this to try and get his small ranch going. He knows he could end up getting killed, and he wants her to go back east and divorce him so that his son and her can have a good life even though he loves them both. No one back east will know or care that his son is part Indian. When he ends up back in her life about a year later to help her so she does not lose the ranch, he refuses to see to his son as he knows how much pain it will cause him to have to leave them both, since he loves them so much. Things of course never work out as you plan. Thru out the book they have to deal with cattle rustlers and very racist people including her father. Lissa may have been a rich man's daughter, but she is not as spoiled as everyone thinks. Jesse has been an outcast all his life and is in need of someone to love him even though he does not know it. They are great together.I had forgotten about Shirl Henke, until I stumble on one of her books and remember that the few I had read were pretty good.