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The Heart of a Warrior (Angela K. Couch) – Review

The Man She Fears Is Her Only Chance For Survival . . .

All Christina Astle wants is to reach Oregon before her baby is born, but the wagon train is attacked, and her husband killed, stranding her in a mountain labyrinth. Raised in the East, within civilization’s embrace, survival is not a skill she’s learned. Neither is evading the lone warrior dogging her trail.

Disgusted by the greed and cruelty of men like his white father, Towan has turned to the simpler existence of his mother’s tribal people. He is not prepared for the fiery woman who threatens to upturn his entire life … and his heart.

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30 November 2020

First Line Friday – Between Two Shores (Jocelyn Green)

Welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books! My selection this week is a must-read for historical-fiction lovers, especially if you’ve enjoyed books by Lori Benton or April Gardiner. Jocelyn Green’s Between Two Shores is set in Quebec in the mid-1700s during the Seven Years’ War (French and Indian War), and features a heroine of both French and Mowhawk descent. About the Book The daughter of a Mohawk mother and French father in 1759 Montreal, Catherine Duval finds it is easier to remain neutral in a world that is tearing itself apart. Content to trade with both the French and

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1 February 2019

First Line Friday – 16 February 2018 – Love the War Woman (April Gardner)

Welcome to First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books! Do you enjoy reading novels about Native Americans? If so, you need to discover April Gardner’s Creek Country Saga! I read the first in this series at the end of last year, and I was hooked! (You can read my review here.) Book number five in the series, Love the War Woman, released last week, so I’m going to share the first line with you today.

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16 February 2018

Beneath the Blackberry Moon: The Red Feather (April W. Gardner) – Review

~ About the Book ~ On a moonless night in 1813, Adela McGirth encounters a set of wolves and the steely eyed warrior who slays them, searing himself on her heart. When he returns, it’s with a brand of a different sort–the flaming arrow that destroys her life. In the copper-haired captive, Totka Lawe finds the other half of his spirit. He vows he would die ten deaths to protect her, and he would kill any who tried to steal her away. With bluecoat soldiers pursuing him, a jealous cousin pursuing her, and the woman herself pursuing home, that vow

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28 December 2017

Many Sparrows (Lori Benton) – Review

This post is part of the Litfuse Publicity blog tour for Many Sparrows. ~ About the Book ~ Either she and her children would emerge from that wilderness together, or none of them would… In 1774, the Ohio-Kentucky frontier pulses with rising tension and brutal conflicts as Colonists push westward and encroach upon Native American territories. The young Inglesby family is making the perilous journey west when an accident sends Philip back to Redstone Fort for help, forcing him to leave his pregnant wife Clare and their four-year old son Jacob on a remote mountain trail. When Philip does not return and

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23 September 2017