First Love, Wild Love

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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

A sexy interracial romance...*SPOILERS MAYBE*
Brianna is a white, blond teen who falls for the tall, muscular, virile Shunkaha Luta, a Native American in his thirties who is unwillingly part of a chain gang...treated

Brianna lives with her wicked aunt and uncle, Harriet and Henry, respectively; an aunt who has the tendency to beat her, and an uncle who doesn't really care about his niece's feelings; just as Shunkaha Luta is beaten, and starved by those overseeing the chain gang, with no caring how the Indian man feels.

Circumstances occur that allow Shunkaha to escape and return to his people, with Brianna going with him and learning his customs...and both, obviously, falling in love.

Interestingly, towards the end of the novel, Brianna grows a little stronger as a person since she is seeing more of the world outside her aunt's influence...and Shunkaha Luta, despite all that has happened to him and his people...becomes wiser and less angry...but still strong.

This is a romance that definitely has you feeling for the characters, and wondering how they of different ethnicities will eventually find their happiness with all the chaos--(in terms of race, class, and gender)--going on around them.

It took me awhile to finally read the novel, as the genre of romance is stereotyped with one-dimensional characters, explicit sex scenes, thin storylines, etc. (I actually jumped in towards the middle, and read it to the end. I loved the book so much, I'm now reading it from the beginning).

Indeed, 'Fast Love, Wild Love' is a little more than the average novel. I found the story engaging, and very sexy...

I look to read more from this author...

2010-06-24 (Bay Area, CA, USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Original story
I totally loved this book not only because Luta had a miserable life, but also because the heroine's life was horrific with her uncle and his wife. She was a survivor and went after her heart's desire in a quiet way. His heart was with his woman. Loved it!

2010-05-17 | Book fanatic (New York) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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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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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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Love Forevermore

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Description

Fascinated with the lure of the Western frontier, Loralee takes a job as the new schoolteacher at Fort Apache, where she meets Shad Zuniga, a renegade Apache who wants nothing to do with the white world, especially its women. Original."

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Customer Reviews

Awesome Read!!!
In an era where it's forbidden for a white woman to love an Indian all seems hopeless for Shad and Loralee. Shad is a proud warrior that is drawn to Loralee's innocence and gentleness. Loralee is the sweet teacher who looks at the person, not their race. One chance meeting is all it takes for Shad and Loralee to become strongly attracted to each other. But with their attraction comes consequences. Because she's not sure where she stands with Shad, Loralee soon finds herself in a predictament that leaves her with not many choices. I felt no pity for Mike because he knew exactly what he was getting into by marrying Loralee. His hatred for Indians (Shad in particular) was a complete turn off! After Shad makes a drastic move to be alone with Loralee, everything changes for them. This is a great book! Normally I'm all about the hero but Loralee's strength and deep love for Shad is what made me fall in love with their story. I've several of Madeline Baker books and this is one that I've read many times and will continue to do so!

2008-06-18 | Avid Reader (Milwaukee, WI) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Another hit !!
I loved this one as much as the others ; before i pick him up i read the reviews i thought it was a different story ; now i'm very pleased i bought it !!
Shad and Loralee were in love from the beginning ; i had no pitty at all from Mike because he knew all along what he was getting into ; Loralee would never love him and she only married him because she was desperate !!
I was very pleased with the ending , Shad and Loralee should always be together with their son !!
If you really enjoy reading romance books and put REAL LOVE above all things in the world you will love this book as much as i did .

2003-08-23 | Paula Cardoso (Porto , Portugal) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 4

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Very good reading
This book was very good reading. Once I started to read it, it was very hard to put it down. I only read Indian Romance books and this one was very good. I've read her books before, she is a very good writer.

2001-10-28 (Plymouth, N.C. USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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TOO MUCH DESCRIPTIONS
First of all, I didn't like the long boring descriptions in Love Forevermore. I found myself skipping long paragraphs a lot throughout the book. And secondly, I found the heroine frustrating and sometimes annoying. I did not like the way the hero and heroine in the book committed adultery and I did not like the way the heroine treated her husband. She should've left her husband or divorced him instead of running around with someone else behind his back and therefore humiliating him. Her husband was a good man and shouldn't have been treated so unfairly. I sympathized with her husband more than the couple. Overall, I found the heroine selfish and lacking in common sense.

2001-08-02 | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 1

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I couldn't put the book down!!!
It is definitely a must read! The hero and heroine is captured very realistically during the times when the Indians and Whites are not suppose to mix. The physical hurt that Shad has to endure for Loralee really takes my breath away. The suffering that both of them went through just to be together in the end......it really shows REAL love. If you haven't read it.....GO AND GET IT!!!

1999-05-26 | Helpful Votes: 5 | Rating: 5

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Hawk's Woman

Description

Hallie McIntyre intends to take her vows and live a cloistered life--until she finds a wounded stranger lying in Sister Dominica's garden. Against her better judgment, Hallie agrees to hide him from her Sisters and from the lawmen who come looking for him, and nurse him back to health.

When the law refuses to hunt down the men who slaughtered his family, John Walking Hawk takes the law into his own hands. Wounded and with a price on his head, he's on the run, wanted for exacting the justice that had been denied him.

Now, because of a twist of fate, Hallie finds herself falling in love with a man she never should have met, and making the hardest decision of her life. Turning her back on the convent, Hallie follows her heart, trading the peace and serenity of the convent for a different and far more dangerous life, risking security and freedom to become Hawk's woman.

Publisher Note: Previously published elsewhere under the same title.

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Customer Reviews

Hawk's Woman
Orphaned at a young age, Hallie McIntyre was raised by a group of nuns in a convent where she'd planned to eventually take her own vows of celibacy. Hallie never imagined how her world would change when she came across a wounded man in dire need of her help. Assisting John Walking Hawk while he recuperates from his wounds opens Hallie's eyes to the possibility that maybe there is more in life than prayer and abstinence. John Hawk is not a simple man; he's a man on a quest to avenge the rape and murder of his dead wife. A man who comes with the stigma of Indian blood flowing through his veins as he hands out his own personal brand of justice to the men responsible for tearing his world apart. Nothing will come easy for a mixed breed and a white woman in a land where justice isn't given to everyone and sometimes the weight of a person's past can be deadly.

Set in a world long since gone, Hawk's Woman is the tale of an innocent young woman who decides to follow her heart to happiness. Hallie was too naïve in the way of the world to be afraid of a man who was surely running from the law which made for a sweet love to build and grow. Taking a chance on Hawk, a man who couldn't see past his need for vengeance, Hallie showed a strength that belied her age and experience. Madeline Baker's novel will be considered by some a slow burning tale of romance. Outside of the instances of danger from varied enemies, human and animal, the story basically outlines a sweet and tender romance between a man who needs a reason to live again. A reason he didn't realize he already had without the guidance of a young woman's love. Hawk's Woman is heart warming historical and one readers who like their romance to simmer before the big pay off will definitely enjoy.


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2010-01-08 | Joyfully Reviewed | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Loved it
I thought this book was great. Its a must read. I couldn't put it down!!

2005-08-29 | missy__ann (New York) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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A charming story
A very rich, charming story! Great characters

1999-01-14 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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Madeline Baker does it again!! Great Story Line.
Clay, strong, powerful to die for winds up almost dead when a beautiful, young - soon to be a nun discovers Clay in the garden of a convent. Hallie, a seventeen year old angel takes tender care of Clay. She gets to feel like a normal young woman would feel. She realizes (after her first kiss with a man like Clay) that a life at the convent becomes no longer an interest. Clay, who tries not to fall in-love again after losing his wife by rape, can't help but feel drawn to Hallie who heals his heart, who lightens the burden of guilt for the last 2 years of his life. After his loss, he only feels anger, revenge.. forgets that life is worth living for. He left his 5 year old daughter, Anna, with her grandparents to seek revenge and take the law into his own hands.

Hallie thought abandoned by her father discovers Frank, her father in a town only to learn that her father is the Sheriff of the town.

Hallie and her Father reunite but Clay is thrown into jail when Frank discovers Clay is wanted for killing 5 men..

Read the book.. It's a must... Great book.

1998-06-24 (New York) | Helpful Votes: 7 | Rating: 4

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Shadows Through Time

Description

Kelsey St. James is a city girl through and through, unable to understand her grandfather-s fascination with the old West. She likes Starbucks and Donna Karan and would-ve made a lousy pioneer. It-s too bad, then, that she manages to step through a portal in time that takes her back to the old West-and straight into the arms of a tall, dark stranger. T.K. Reese is a half-breed gambler with a price on his head. The last thing he was looking for was a woman, let alone one wearing tight, bright pink breeches. But before he knows it, he-s looking after Kelsey, teaching her to play poker and rescuing her from thugs. Somewhere along the way, they find themselves falling in love. But Kelsey doesn-t belong in Reese-s world any more than he belongs in hers. They-re forced to face the possibility that their love is nothing more than a shadow through time.

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Lakota Renegade (Leisure historical romance)

Description

Creed Maddigan is handy with six-guns and fists. But the rugged half-breed isn't used to innocents like Jassy McCloud who curtsy and make ginger snaps. Then Creed is falsely jailed for a crime he didn't commit and Jassy is determined to take Creed for better or worse--even if she has to spend the rest of her days dodging bullets and bounty hunters. Original.

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Customer Reviews

Stand By Your Man!
Stand by your man! That's what Jassy McCloud did even when Creed Madigan wasn't her man LOL! They form an unlikely friendship when Creed protects Jassy from the advances of the town boys. Creed and Jassy are completely different but they have one thing in common... they're both outcasts. Creed is an half breed bounty hunter and Jassy is the daughter of a salon worker. Circumstances of death and wrongful imprisonment causes Creed and Jassy to run away together. Creed's plan is to help Jassy achieve the life that she wants and leave her forever. While Jassy's plan is to get Creed to stay with her and finally see that he is who and what she wants. Throughout their travel together there some funny scenes with Creed trying to resist Jassy's innocent seduction. Love conquers all for them and they find happines and the respect that they both strive to gain. I love this book. Yes, there was a age gape but I loved that Creed respected Jassy enough that no matter how much he wanted her he would not take advantage of her. He waited which wasn't easy for him but he respected Jassy and gave her the things that may seem simple to others but meant everything to her. Madeline Baker does it again!

2008-03-22 | Avid Reader (Milwaukee, WI) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5

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Perfectly Sweet
I have read many Indian-White romance books but this one was very different. This is not your silly cliche books but very well written. Jassie's mother and sister are crib workers, something most people now days don't know what is, so Ms. Baker obviously done her research. Jassie is young and her attraction to an older man was very common in that day and time, not sick. Creed is a hard man, he has lived a tough life but he has not allowed misfortune to turn him into a brute. I almost cried when he buys food for little Jassie. Don't want to spoil it, so if you like romantic westerns with respect to that era, this is a good one.

2007-12-05 (Georgia) | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 5

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Couldn't get through it
Please do not bother with this book. I have never read anything by Madeline Baker before, so I can't comment on her writing in general, but I couldn't even get through the book. I had ordered it based on the wonderful reviews, but I found the writing to be stilted, and the plot to be amazingly cliche. The heroine was only 17 and the hero was in his 30's! He was supposed to be an experienced gunslinger, and the way Jassie spoke it sounded like she was a little girl, pestering him with questions. It was very hard for me to get past that, but even ignoring the large age difference, there was such annoying repitition. Creed kept saying that he really should leave town, but he didn't because he couldn't resist the heroine. Even the descriptions of the characters were overused, especially Jassie's "luminous" brown eyes. I felt as if the book was a short story within the first 100 pages that had for some reason been extended to include an even more boring plot. I was really very disappointed by this book.

2004-07-27 | Ari | Helpful Votes: 8 | Rating: 1

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Unforgettable
Creed and Jassy's story was so amazing and beautiful! She made up her mind that he was the man for her and never lost faith in that, even when things seemed to be at their worst. Creed was a tough and hardened criminal who was determined not to lead Jassy into his rough life until he realized what he would be throwing away: his heart and soul. What a such a passionate story! I felt their pain and happiness, and even at times, laughter. I must congragulate Ms. Baker on another unforgettable book!!

2004-03-02 (Ogden, Utah) | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 5

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Not forgotten
I could not get interested in the book at first but I am glad that I decided to keep on trying to read it. It was a very good story, how I wanted to shake Creed to wake him up and see that love was looking right at him. I am so happy that Jassy stayed and insisted to keep her love for him and to find it else where. I even had tears in my eyes at times. I really wanted Jassy and Rose to get together ageain and find the relationship that sister's can have, but out of love Rose was there for Jassy at the end. I am happy that Creed and Jassy did get to see the rainbow's together for ever and she name her baby after Rose. I am hooked on Indian Romance Story's they are very passionate.

2000-04-24 | mbdawn47 | Helpful Votes: 5 | Rating: 5

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