title: Out Of The Fire
author: Joy, Nina
description: Captured by Comanche, a young woman has the opportunity to choose which warrior she will marry; she chooses a young man.  Copper Coup rescues Pierce from the Whites when he and his band are captured, using her white skin and knowledge of white ways to break them out of prison; the break is only partially successful and the couple is kept from following the others until they can be “properly” married.  Loyal to the tribe, they return to the west and live in western Nebraska and Colorado.  Until Pierce receives a message from the uncle he thought was dead and leaves his pregnant wife to meet him in California, where he counts coup among the women instead of on the plains.  His uncle proves illusive, requiring him to track him down.  All three go to England, Pierce’s ancestral home.  Nearly destroyed by the ways of the nobility, their marriage shattered, Copper Coup runs away and Pierce comes to terms with himself and the necessity to choose where and how they will live.