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Wolf Shadow (Signet Historical Romance)

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In Buffalo Springs, Chance McCloud is playing cards when Edward Bryant approaches him with an offer of $500 for twenty minutes of his time. Edward asks Chance to find his daughter stolen by the Sioux a decade ago. Chance tells the man that he is wasting his money, as his daughter is Indian. Edward's wife Rosalia appears pleading for Chance's help even as her husband increases the pot to $15,000. After seeing Rosalia, Chance is confident he knows where to find Teresa.

Chance visits the tribe that raised him as a half-breed to inform Blue Rain that her birth name is Teresa and her biological parents want her to come home. Blue Rain expects to wed a tribesman though she is attracted to Chance known among the tribe as Wolf Shadow, but tells him she is happy with her life. However, a Crow raid kills her future spouse and her Indian parents. She still does not want to leave so Chance takes her white parents to the tribe to see her even as he finds himself falling in love with her.

Known for her Indian romances, award winning Madeline Baker provides her readers with an exciting and insightful tale. The lead protagonists are a charming pair and the support cast adds depth to the novel. Though difficult choices are resolved rather easily through the death of the key players, fans will appreciate this warm Indian romance.

Harriet Klausner

Kidnapped by Sioux Indians as a child, Teressa Bryant was raised a beloved member of their tribe. Ten years have erased the memory of her capture-and her birth parents. Now called Blue Rain, she is on the verge of accepting the marriage proposal of a warrior-until a handsome stranger appears, searching for the girl with the deep blue eyes...

Half-Sioux and half-white, Chance McCloud is known to his mother's people as Wolf Shadow. Hired by Blue Rain's birth parents to bring her home, Chance soon finds himself torn between his obligation and the enchanting woman who has roused his untamed longing...

It doesn't take long for searing passion to throw Blue Rain's history-and future-into question. But if she agrees to return to the life she once knew, can she leave behind the man who has claimed her, body and soul?

I'm alwyays looking for historical Native American romances to read because I tend to favor them and there are few out there that do them justice. I chose this book because I basically the premise. The idea of a white girl getting captured at a young age by Indians and growing up among them was very interesting. What I found hard to believe as I continued reading was how easy Wolf Shadow found her. It was just too much of a coincedence that she happened to be living in the village where he grew up. When they were both captured by the Crow, she didn't seem too distraught when she thought her family was killed and for that matter neither did he about his. There just wasn't any depth to this book. She just put pieces together that seemed to flow into one another but they didn't have too much feeling to them. If you're looking for a good Native American historical read Comanche Moon by Catherine Anderson.