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Wind Rider.

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This is the 2nd book in the trilogy 'Trails West'. The first being 'Tears Like the Rain' and the 3rd being 'Sierra'. This, 'Wind Rider', is the powerful love story between Windrider and Hannah McLin. Hannah is an indentured servant to an abusive man. She escapes him only to run into a Cheyenne warrior named Windrider. She saves his life from certain death in exchange for being set free, but Fate steps in and she is his prisoner. Windrider is a white Indian, brought to the Cheyenne when he was little with his sister Abby (Tears Like the Rain). They were raised like Cheyenne and given names like the Cheyenne. He soon falls in love with Hannah, but so much turbulance is happening during this time period (1864), and the Cheyenne and Sioux are rallying to fight the whites from settling the frontier. They are soon torn apart and thrust into worlds they are unfamilar with. It's a wonderful story of courage and love and brought tears to my eyes many times. Windrider is also known as Ryder Larson, a white indian living amongst the Cheyenne as a Cheyenne Warrior who had rivaled the most feirce of the warriors. Connie Mason never disapoints and brings to life a great story. It's definately worth a read.

This book is so deep and well written it almost brang me to tears. It felt as though I was going through the motion with Wind Rider and Hannah it felt like you were there with them, THE PART THAT TORE AT ME was Wind Rider losing his sight and him being captured and beaten and chain, when a book gives you goose bumps you know its good and the love scenes wonderful as always from Connie Mason...


Its worth the read in the series you wont be disappointed and trust me the emotions that you will feel reading this book from start to finish will bring you almost to tears some good tears some bad of course if you are an emotional person....


..........................JUST WONDERFUL.....................

I've read several of Ms. Mason's other romances and quite liked them. I was prepared to enjoy this, as well -- especially since I'm a sucker for Native American romances, being part Cherokee myself. Boy, was I in for a shock.

The premise is intriguing. Hannah is an indentured servant mistreated by her "owner," an innkeeper who wants her to whore herself out for his patrons. She runs away, only to be captured by the Cheyenne brave Wind Rider. Hannah is taken back to the camp, where Wind Rider decides to marry her in order to save her from being raped or killed.

Wind Rider professes disgust from the very beginning for Hannah because he overheard the innkeeper calling her a whore. He continually berates her through the first part of the book, despite her protests to the contrary. When they have sex, he is shocked to discover that she's a virgin. (Gee... she only just TOLD you a half dozen times...)

Everyone in the book but Wind Rider (and later his sister and brother-in-law) seems to hate Hannah and have it in for her and Wind Rider. The number of people who tell Wind Rider that she is a lying, cheating whore throughout the book is ridiculous. Of course, whenever she tries to tell him the truth, he refuses to believe her and barrages her with accusations and abuse.

Oh, but he's constantly talking about how much he is in love with her... Actions, not words, please.

Frankly, this is a story of toxic jealousy and obsession, not romance. There is no evidence that Wind Rider and Hannah love each other except the amazing sex they have, and hate to break it to you, but great sex doesn't make a great relationship. (Trust me. I've been there.)

It isn't until the last thirty or so pages of the book that Wind Rider realizes that EVERYONE has been lying to him about Hannah. There's nothing to spur this realization; he just suddenly does, right out of the blue. I couldn't buy it, and at the end of the book I was left wondering what infidelity he was going to accuse her of next. I'm sorry, but the ending really doesn't ring as a romance to me.