Gray Hawk’s Lady (Blackfoot Warriors #1) by Karen Kay

Description:
Different worlds, one heart.

When Lady Genevieve Rohan joins her father in the farthest reaches of the American West, she expects to bring a bit of genteel English charm to his dry, academic existence. Instead, she finds her father desperately ill, and it’s up to her to finish his study of the Indian and publish his work—or face the wrath of his creditors.

Her troubles mount when the men hired to capture a member of the Blackfoot tribe don’t bring her a docile maid to study. They present her with a magnificent warrior—proud, outrageously handsome and simmering with fury at the loss of his freedom.

The white woman is beautiful beyond compare, but Gray Hawk can’t think past his plan to exact revenge against this meddling foreigner. It’s ridiculously easy to escape, then turn the tables and take her captive. When anger turns to passion, then to love, he embarks on a new quest. To claim the stubborn, red-headed vixen as his own.

Yet as their hearts strain toward each other, pride conspires to pull them apart…unless they can each find a way for their hearts to become one.

This book has been previously published.

Product Warnings
Contains a raging, simmering love, consumed by its fire and destined to explode at any moment.
Genevieve Rohan has her back up against a wall. Her father is not well and she is determined to finish a book that he has started about the Indian’s. They need a member of the Blackfoot tribe to finish their study. Desperate, she hires trappers to capture one and bring him back for her to study.

When they do, she is surprised. This man – Grey Hawk knows the English language and they do not get along at all to begin with. She doesn’t realize what a powerful warrior he is and exactly who she’s captured. At his first chance, he escapes, bringing her with him. During the long days and nights it takes them to travel to his village, she becomes his wife in the Blackfoot way.

Once they arrive in the village, a misunderstanding, that Grey Hawk refuses to correct makes her a revered woman among the tribe. His mother and sisters all take to her quickly and begin to call her a member of the family. She is a fast learner, although not without some misunderstandings because of the language barriers.

When he makes good on a promise to her and returns them to civilization, it is up to her to determine if she wants to stay with him or stay in the society she thought she’d left behind. Grey Hawk refuses to make her choose and ends up making the choice himself. To see what choice he made, you will have to read on and find out!

I went into this book, not really knowing what to expect. It’d been a long time since I read a Native American book. Back when I very first started reading romances, some of the books that I cut my teeth on were Janelle Taylor’s Savage series. This book is very much in that vein. If you’ve been missing the romance novels of old, then this is the book for you. The sex is very sensual, not like a lot of the newer contemporaries, but the story is very much there. Like I said if you’ve been missing the old romances, then the Samhain Retro line is for you. I remember books like these and while I may not wish to read them all the time, they are a nice break from a lot of the ‘shocking’ books of today’s time.

There are a couple more in this series that I can’t wait to get to and review!

3.5 Stars