Apache Flame

Description

New from the winner of the Reviewers Choice Award for Best Indian Series

Now Madeline Baker presents her newest, most touching novel--a passionate story of perilous love in 1860s New Mexico...

In the small town of Canyon Creek, a preacher's daughter was strictly forbidden to marry a half-Apache like Mitchell Garret. But nothing could keep Alisha Faraday from the boy she loved. Not the warnings of her father, the hands of fate, or even the passing of years. Now, after half a decade, her long-lost Mitch has returned. But could the flames of their past survive the challenges of a dark and dangerous future?

Praise for Madeline Baker, the multiple award-winning author of Hawk's Woman:

"Ms. Baker is wonderful!"--Bell, Book & Candle

"Magnificent...glorious"--Affaire de Coeur

"Passionate...delicious"--Romantic Times

* Madeline Baker has won many awards, including Affaire de Coeur's Top Ten Authors of the Year
* Baker's previous novel, Hawk's Woman, was hailed by Romantic Times as "a beautiful love story, another Baker triumph!"

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Customer Reviews

Apache's Flame
Alisha Faraday was a young girl when she fell in love with Mitch Garrett. Mitch was Apache, poor and had a rough home life. Alisha was the preacher's daughter and had everything she could ever want, except she had to hide her friendship with Mitch. Once he was a teen, Mitch left town to make something of himself, but he swore he'd come back for Alisha. Alisha waited for Mitch for a while, but as time went by and he never contacted her, she reluctantly moved on. When Mitch's father dies sending him back to town, he and Alisha feel that same pull. But Alisha is engaged and Mitch is bitter. Through heartbreak and loss and revealed secrets and lies, will Mitch and Alisha finally have a shot at future together?

Apache Flame is a tender love story filled with angst and laced with excitement. Mitch and Alisha's story is very sweet. They practically grew up together and their lives revolved around each other, even when they were apart. The tales Mitch tells about the Apache people are interesting and endearing, as is his real Apache family. Mitch and Alisha face one obstacle after another in Apache Flame, but in the end they prove that true love conquers all!

Nannette
Reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed

2008-11-20 | Joyfully Reviewed | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 5

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Red Rose Romance Reader Reviews
Book Title: Apache Flame
Pages: 342
Author: Madeline Baker
Genre: Historical

Main Characters:

Alisha Faraday and Mitchy Garrett

Overall Quality
First, let me explain that I purposely seek out little known historical romance authors because I prefer unique story plots. I abhor the standard published romance drivel forced on us by certain publishers who think we women are a bunch of low iq idiots!! I hate the standard boy girl - love hate plots these publishers throw at us. These reviews reflect my tastes and my tastes in romance reading only. I do not claim to be the expert for everyone like our romance publishers think they are.

Story Plot:
Growing up together the boy from the wrong side of parentage is befriended and falls in love with the preacher's daughter. Secretly their friendship grows to love. Both sets of parents lie to the children. These lies complicate their innocent lives until fate unites them as adults. The truth is revealed and together they fight the deceit to bring their love and family together.

I especially liked:
The Native American peoples in this story were not treated as hollywood plastic stereotypes. This author treated them as they truly were, loving and devoted to family.

I didn't like
the Comanche part, but it was necessary for action in the story.

When I finished the book I wanted to:
Find more of her books.

This book made me feel:
Interested and the way she wrote created a movie in my mind.

I recommend this book because:
The plot is unique. Baker has a good hook and an interesting story.

2002-08-17 | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 4

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Just Great
This book was really worth the 2 hours I spent reading it. It was really clever of Baker to give us the flashbacks into Alisha and Mitch's past. It really helped you to understand how they fell in love. The real plot of this story in my opinion was to undercover all the lies that tore them appart. The most hurtful lies were the ones from their fathers. First telling Mitch that his mother was dead. Then Alisha's father telling her that the baby she was having by Mitch was stillborn. Man what fathers would do to keep their children under lock and key. Besides the gloomy parts this book will give you a good laugh. I had to keep covering my mouth to keep me from laughing out loud. All in all this is a great book hope you enjoy.

2001-04-13 | cleomenza (Anderson, SC USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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Excellent Book!
This book was completely satisfactory. i enjoyed its content. I loved Baker's creativity. This was my first book by Baker, and it will certainly not be the last. Mitchy sounds like Prince Charming to my imagination, and i certainly love to dream. Keep 'em coming Baker!

2000-02-23 | Nathalie (Bronx, NY) | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 5

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not particularly authentic!
The storyline was okay but the 20th century dialog didn't fit with the mid-1800's story.

1999-11-17 | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 3

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Love in the Wind

Description

Deciding to enter a convent after her fiance+a7's tragic death, Katy Marie Alvarez is attacked while en route to her destination and taken captive by the seductive Cheyenne warrior Iron Wing. Original.

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Customer Reviews

a wonderfuly good read
I loved this book. I like Iron Wing and Katy. Such wonderful characters. I didn't like Iron Wing at first but as the book progressed I found his unwavering loyality to Katy a remarkable thing. Katy was a somewhat spoiled girl that found true love with the proud but kind hearted(after a time)Iron Wing. I did have a problem with Iron Wing whipping Katy in the begining of the book but after that the book was truly wonderful.(though if some one whipped me i would hate them not fall in love with them.)

2005-08-29 | missy__ann (New York) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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Very good
Love in the Wind was the very first romance novel that I ever read and it remains my favorite even now, years later! I found it very well written, and very emotionally provoking.
Love in the Wind is an old western historical romance. Katy is the woman at the center of the story. She was once an heiress to her parents' farm, but decided to become a nun when her fiance was killed by Indians. On her way to the convent, her coach is attacked by rebel Indians and she is the only one left alive, only to be found by a group of Cheyenne. She is taken back to their tribe and is given as a gift to their greatest warrior, Iron Wing, and thus the romance begins. It's true that Katy surely should have learned to hate Iron Wing as she many times proclaimed, but love never knows what it is SHOULD do anyway. Against all odds the two fall in love, and then must fight beyond what they had ever imagined to stay together.
Love and romance, humor and fun, horrifying and tear jerking, this book has everything. It is a truly good read.

2003-08-10 | Helpful Votes: 5 | Rating: 5

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A BOOK TO LOVE AND HATE
It was hard to understand how Katy fell in love with Iron Wing. After all she was "given to him" by his friend whom found her hiding in the carriage that was attacked by another tribe. His punishments to her when she tried to escape or free prisoners would make anyone learn to hate him. However, once they found their feelings for each other (or should I say Katy realized her own feelings toward Iron Wing since he already claimed her), they ended up with constant struggles to stay together. At times Katy seemed spoiled and selfish, escpecially when she returned home and you wanted to shake her for this thoughtlessness really hard. But I was surprised when she changed her tune in favor of Iron Wing. I consider any book that can get you to react to it emotionally, whether it is good or bad emotions, is well written, I did finish this book in only 1 1/2 days.

2000-08-10 | Helpful Votes: 7 | Rating: 4

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A Wilderness Christmas

Description

A half-breed Apache witnesses the miracle of a Christmas birth, a woman struggles to rid herself of the Yankee partner who has bought out half of her ranch, and a handsome stranger begs for work, in a collection of romance tales. Original.

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Customer Reviews

Two so-so stories, two really bad ones
From the back cover:

LOVING DEVLIN by Madeline Baker
For a half-breed Apache, love comes full circle as he witnesses the miracle of a Christmas birth, helping his woman bring forth her babe far from the comforts of civilization.

THE FOURTH GIFT by Elizabeth Chadwick
A determined woman struggles to rid herself of the Yankee partner who has brought out half her Arizona sheep ranch, but by Christmas morning the interloper has fulfilled the three wishes dearest to her heart, and given her a fourth gift she hardly dared hope for.

CHRISTMAS SURPRISE by Norah Hess
When a handsome stranger appears at her isolated farm looking for work, a lovelorn spinster finds the dark, dreary winter days become as bright and new as the Christmas surprise he brings her.

CHRISTMAS STAR by Connie Mason
Following her very own Christmas star through the wilds of Colonial Virginia, a beautiful orphan learns she had enough love to make three lonely people into a true family.

And my review:

Madeline Baker's story LOVING DEVLIN is actually a sequel to her novella LOVING SARAH, which was found in Leisure book's A FRONTIER CHRISTMAS collection. In this novella, the hero and heroine are already married and in love, awaiting the birth of their child. Like the first story, I didn't find this one all the captivating. The characters just never seemed very real or deep to me, and I found that I just didn't much care about what happened to them. They weren't awful or unlikeable, the just didn't grip me. And since they were already married and in love, there wasn't really much romantic tension to this story. Three stars.

I didn't get very far into Elizabeth Chadwick's THE FOURTH GIFT. It had a rather awkward, choppy feel to it, for one thing. The words just didn't flow together well. And I could not stand the heroine. She was such an annoying, abrasive harpy. I had no idea what the hero saw in her. Two stars.

Norah Hess' CHRISTMAS SURPRISE was probably the most enjoyable story in this collection. The author did a good job of portraying frontier life, and I liked watching these two misfits find love in each other. However, this wasn't a story you'd want to read over and over. It's good for a one-time read, and will give you a bit of holiday spirit, but it's nothing overly moving or memorable. Three stars.

Connie Mason's CHRISTMAS STAR was another story that I didn't finish. Neither the hero nor the heroine were likeable people. The hero was a bitter, twisted person, and the heroine a horrendous bigot. I can see why she might not like Indians, given that her family was killed by Indians, but to hate a child who's not even five years old merely because she's an Indian? That's despicable! The heroine's outlook probably changed by the end of the story, but her racist attitude quickly destroyed any liking I might have had for the heroine. And when you don't like either of the main characters, who really cares what happens to them? I didn't. One star.

Two of the stories in this book are okay for a one-time read, but neither of them is very stellar. Go ahead and buy this if you can find it at a garage sale or a thrift store. Otherwise, save your money for something better. See my list "Christmas romance books worth reading" for a list of my favorite picks.

2006-12-11 | bookworm (Alberta, Canada) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 2

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Not The Best!
A Wilderness Christmas: Discover the Old-Fashioned Joys if a Frontier Christmas is one of those short story romance anthologies that have several short romance stories by several different romance book novelists and this book was okay but not great. Some of the stories were good but there were some that were terrible. The best story was Christmas Surprise by Norah Hess. In this story a young woman named Jassy Jeffers is trying to keep her farm going and gets help from a drifter named Luke Slater. He saves her from a band of outlaws and winds up staying and helping her out on her farm and they fall in love. The story Christmas Star by Connie Maon was good, I liked the hero Jedidiah Wells (Jed) and I liked his adopted Native American daughter Star but I had a hard time warming up to the heroine Charity Marlowe because I didn't like how she treated Star and was annoyed at her reactions to her. I mean, I felt like saying, oh, she's a child, you are an adult, just grow up and stop being so rude and bigoted! The worst story was The Fourth Gift by Elizabeth Chadwick. I liked the hero Jonathan Forrester but I found the heroine Merrill Fox to be very weird! The Fourth Gift is about a weird spinster who is upset that she has a new business partner and half owner of her house and I just found her to be very weird. She was harsh, abrasive, rude and bigoted. I Just can't like an ignorant heroine who makes bigoted racist comments.

2005-12-22 | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 2

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discover the old-fashioned joys of a frontier christmas!
Madeline Baker's LOVING DEVLIN...
In this loving sequel to LOVING SARAH (found in A FRONTIER CHRISTMAS) for a half-breed Apache, love comes full circle as he witnesses the miracle of a Christmas birth, helping his woman bring forth her babe far from the comforts of civilization.

Elizabeth Chadwick's THE FOURTH GIFT...
A determined woman struggles to rid herself of the Yankee partner who has bought out half of her Arizona sheep ranch, but by Christmas morning the interloper has fuldilled the three wishes dearest to her heart, and given her a fourth gift she hardly dared hope for.

Norah Hess's CHRISTMAS SURPRISE...
When a handsome stranger appears at her isolated farm looking for work, a lovelorn spinster finds the dark, dreary winter days become as bright and new as the Christmas surprise he brings her.

Connie Mason's CHRISTMAS STAR...
Following her very own Christmas star through the wilds of Colonial Virginia, a beautiful orphan learns she has enough love to make three lonely people into a true family.

2003-03-23 (Missouri, USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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First Love, Wild Love

Product Details

• ISBN13: 9780843963571
• Adapt: NEW
• Notes: Disgrace New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Description

From the first moment she sees him, a prisoner working on a road gang, Briana knows that he is forbidden to her, but when he escapes the white man's chains, she knows that she must go with her Indian lover. Reissue.

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Customer Reviews

Sweet Romance
I enjoyed this book. I found the heroine to be a little bit naive and wimpy but I guess all women even in fiction can't be strong self sufficient types. I wish that a bit more actual Native American lifestyle had been shown but what was there was interesting. I liked that both the hero and the heroine gave serious thought to whether or not they could fit into each other's world. I thought it was realistic that they realized that they could not live on in the old ways. I enjoyed watching two people cleave together through adversity.

2010-03-11 (Lone Jack, MO USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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wonderful book
I loved this book. I have yet to read another book whose story line is like this one. Could not put it down once I started it!

2007-11-07 (Ocala, FL USA) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5

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One of the few romance novels I enjoyed
Normally I hate romance novels and consider them trashy, but this one was a glowing exception. It had as much action and history in it as it did romance. The romance when it was going on was a romance of love, not just lust. The commitment between Brianna and Shunkaha was palpable and real. Though they were from different worlds, their love overcame all the trials and hardships life could throw at them.

This is definitely one of the very few romance novels I'd ever recommend because of the history in it such as the Battle of Wounded Knee and the massacre of the Lakota.

2006-11-26 | Aoooooooooooo! (MI, United States) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5

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A truly great book.
I love all Madeline Baker books and one is no exception. Shukaha Luta and Brianna have a wonderful friendship from the start. Though Shukaha is 30 years old and Brianna or Ishna Wi as he calls her(which means Sun Woman) is 17 Shukaha soon realizes that she is all woman. After Brianna rescues Shukaha from a chain gang Shukaha rescues Brianna from her abusive aunt and uncle. Shukaha takes her to his people where after many trials they eventually come back to Brainna's Aunt and Uncles house to find the uncle has died and left everything to Brianna. The two have many things in store for them before they get their ever after. I definatly recomend this book to anyone who wants a romantic adventure.

2005-08-29 | missy__ann (New York) | Helpful Votes: 3 | Rating: 5

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Simply perfect
This was my first Madeline Baker book, and it got me hooked. The love story between Shukaha Luta and Brianna was one of the sweetest and most romantic I've read in a long time, and really has stood up to be the best after countless other romances I've read. Brianna is an innocent 17 years old girl when she meets her Indian brave, who is a grown man of 30. But, he is imprisoned, and Brianna soon risks everything to free him. They fall in love almost from first sight, but it takes a few chapters for Shunkaha to look past her young age and realize she could be all women for him! After he makes the decision, he commits to her totally. Even after separations they remain true to each other, even after he is feared dead. They always reunite happily. Even after Shunkaha realizes the Lakota can no longer live as they once did and he has to adapt, they remain devoted. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves romance and needs to believe that love does conquer all barriers.
Cyndi

2001-12-18 | Cyn (Winlock, WA) | Helpful Votes: 6 | Rating: 5

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The Spirit Path

Description

Baker, with thirteen novels to her credit, once again blazes a trail of desire and bliss that will leave readers clamoring for more. Strong and wise beyond his years, Shadow Hawk, the spiritual leader of his people, is drawn by a mysterious vision to an unknown place--a distant time where passion and peril await. "Madeline Baker's Indian Romances should not be missed!"--Romantic Times.

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Customer Reviews

Madeline Baker does it again
"The Spirit Path" is a Historical Romance-meets-the-Present time travel. Madeline Baker weaves this story beautifully! It's about Shadow Hawk, a young Lakota spiritual leader of his People who goes on a vision quest that opens a portal and takes him on a time travel to meet Maggie, the beautiful woman in his dreams. Despite any odds, Shadow Hawk and Maggie discover a shared destiny and will conquer time itself to be together.

2002-02-12 (Missouri, USA) | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 5

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A KEEPER!
This story was absoutely captivating. I love the historical, Indian Romance stories, but recently been introduced to the wonderful time travel plots. Madeline does a fine job of creating an astonishing and sensual story highlighted with the beautiful folklore of the Indian culture. This book you will begin and not want it to end. You will find yourself racing through time with the characters in the bold pursuit of captivating fantasy.

2000-05-19 | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5

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A KEEPER!
This story was absoutely captivating. I love the historical, Indian Romance stories, but recently been introduced to the wonderful time travel plots. Madeline does a fine job of creating an astonishing and sensual story highlighted with the beautiful folklore of the Indian culture. This book you will begin and not want it to end. You will find yourself racing through time with the characters in the bold pursuit of captivating fantasy.

2000-05-19 | Helpful Votes: 5 | Rating: 5

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One of my all time favorites
This was the first time travel romance I had ever read. After reading SPIRIT PATH, I was hooked. I love the western/native american influenced romances, and when a person from the here and now gets a chance to go back and be a part of history, well isn't that a fantasy we all have at one time or another? Ms. Baker writes a wonderful absorbing tale. I read her books any chance I get. Even when she's writing under Amanda Ashley and telling vampire stories (which are also wonderful!) SPIRIT PATH is for any one who has ever dreamed of another place and time. Madeline Baker pays Native America a respectful and beautiful homage and enlightens us to problems still faced today. Cowboys and Indians, supernatural, present day. It's all here.

2000-03-29 (Austin, Texas) | Helpful Votes: 6 | Rating: 5

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Feather in the Wind (Leisure Historical Romance)

Description

Praying for the strength to guide his people, Native American leader Black Wind sees the image of a strange white woman, twentieth-century writer Susannah, who is transported back in time to help his cause. Original.

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Customer Reviews

Sweet Older Western
This is classic Madeline Baker. Easily read, sweet moments, though no real "fire" between the couple's and a predictable plot. Overall it's a just a "nice" read.

2009-08-27 | Feminism is the radical notion that women are...MEN? (MI, USA) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 3

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Couldn't Even Finish It.
I must have read a different book than what everyone else did who rated this book on this site because I found this book to be horrible. It was boring and tedious at best. There was just wasn't any character development. Girl needs a guy. Girl Finds a Feather. Girl Wishes on a Feather. Girl Transported Back in Time. Girl Meets Native American Indian who by the way had a life changing vision about her. They fall in love. Hello! Could you give us something else. Granted, this is a time travel romance but it was just not a believable novel. It was like pulling teeth for me. I didn't even finish it.

2009-07-25 | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 1

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Thank You Madeline Baker
I'm not really into time travel romances. I've only read one other one that I liked and that was Son of the Morning by Linda Howard. So my expectations were not that high that this one was going to be good, but I was WRONG!! I read it in one afternoon and I haven't did that in years. Feather in the Wind is not your typical Indian warrior, white woman story. Read this book you will not be disappointed!!

2009-06-13 | Okie from SC (OK, USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Book
Book in great condition,
came in great packaging.
Delivery time was great.
I am very happy with this
transaction
thank you... AAAAAAA++++++++

2007-12-31 | Noelkimberly (Canton, Ohio USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Feather in the Wind by Madeline Baker

One more notch in Madeline's 'Great Novel Post'. This was a Super read.
I highly recommend this book Feather in the Wind (Leisure Historical Romance) for all Historical Romance lovers.

2007-11-12 | Chippewa_Chick (Moran, Michigan United States) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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