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Reckless Embrace

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In 1905, Black Owl went east to formally study veterinary medicine. Three years later, to the elation of his family, especially his mother, he has graduated and has returned to his home in Bear Valley to set up his practice. Blackie rents a facility from Joey McBride and begins offering his services though some of the Anglos reject him because of his Indian heritage.

Soon Joey and Blackie begin to fall in love. His family supports Blackie marrying Joey. By example like their parents did much earlier, his two older siblings have recently established mixed marriages. However, her side led by her grandmother and her brother remember the Little Big Horn; they prefer to run the Indian out of town.

Madeline Baker continues her strong early historical romance series with the engaging tale of the third child Blackie, who has adopted much of white heritage. The story line is loaded with Native American life that enables the audience to feel a period of major transition. Though the characters behave very typical of the sub-genre, including books by Ms. Baker, fans will fully embrace this warm exciting star-crossed romance while looking forward to the Daniel Blue Hawk's novel set in another decade or two.

Harriet Klausner

This book is told from so many points of view I just couldn't get into it. One minute it would be from the son's point of view, then the mother's, then the father's, then the brother's, then the lover's. It was all over the place. I like an accurate account of history in my historical romance novels. But, this one told so much history there wasn't much room for romance. It seemed as though the "story" was just thrown in to make the history lesson more interesting. Of course this is just my opinion, but I wanted more romance, centered on one couple. I didn't like it at all.

Wow! This was a great book, told partially from the mother's viewpoint, it still held me captive. I'm looking forward to finding the other books in this series.