Review: Sizzling romantic tension against a frontier backdrop
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 29, 2013
The story of a half-Cheynne/half-white heroine (Nichole) creates immediate conflict in the frontier life of Wyoming.  From the first pages, the internal struggle of the heroine is clear as she balances her identity with her circumstances of losing her family.  The need for the hero (Chris) to find a wife to help his very large family and his newly found hatred for the Cheyenne are also clear.  I do love the idea of soul mates and the romance behind this story is both about finding your fated other half while also accepting who each person is as individuals.Nichole and Chris have chemistry from the moment they meet and the author does a great job of showing their developing feelings for each other and how they work hard to fit into each other's life and identity.  The background conflict of the villains could have come a little earlier in the story for me, but once their identities became known, it helped to propel the story to the end as the characters struggle to keep their family safe and their love alive.If there were half-stars, I would have given 4.5 out of 5.  (I round up or down based on the story.)  The 1/2 star is due to some of the modern viewpoint of "whites vs. Indians."  This is a historical romance and people were racist back then.  The number of inter-racial marriages in the story seemed too liberal for the times.  And the insertion of the villain and brother POVs came rather late in the story and threw me off a bit.The author did do a good job of setting up the sequel.  I will be waiting to read about the next brother!