His anti-slavery piratical friend hastens to the Barbary Coast to look for him. Meanwhile, Missy's health is so poor she needs Skye's help to make the journey back to the Wind River Ranch. Of course, Kyle and Skye fall in love, but she hasn't disclosed her Lakota blood. If you're able to follow the plot this far, I will leave to you the resolution of these problems as the novel wanders up the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers to the Dakotas. This book reads for the most part as if it set in the late 20th century replete with 20th century clich s and customs.
Most plots are generally character driven or event driven.
This story meanders from one contrived event to the next, with the assistance of countless major themes such as slavery, homesteading, relations with Indians and the Barbary Coast uprising. The author clearly worked hard to contrive one event after another. It's too bad they were so obviously done and unbelievable. The dialogue is vacuous and the characters are hollow. The author perhaps could have salvaged something in this book if she had availed herself of the many opportunities to create tension between characters.