Loretta is an orphan living with relatives on a small farm in Texas. She doesn't speak after having witnessed the brutal death of her parents by Comanches. But Hunter of the Wolf sees her as the woman in a prophecy destined to save Comanche customs and people.
It's a great story about early Texas and the wars between settlers and Native Americans. I love how Ms. Anderson weaves in the traditions and customs of the natives yet also shows how hard the lives of the settlers were. Loretta and Hunter are destined to be together, but it's a difficult road to get them to their final destination. Truly a great story. ( )

Really liked this one. It had a good feel for the American Indian aspects. Many times authors say "he was an indian" without much supporting detail, but this was very well done. The hero acted like an indian rather than a white man. ( )

Coming home after injuring his ribs, the hero is once again surrounded by family and the people he loves, but it soon becomes apparent that he's grown apart from them. Not emotionally, but personality wise. He's become jaded- bitter, living only in pursuit of his dreams and earning money. When he finds out his friend is consorting with the town prostitute, he becomes outraged that this fallen woman should be welcome around his family. So, once again deep in his cups, he confronts her one night and demands that she cut off all contact with his family. Seeing the heartbroken look in his eyes, feeling a bit of guilt over the fact but staying firm to his ignorance, he is in turn confronted from his father next day. As a compache, his father has always been the guiding light to the hero. It's plan to see that he's disappointed the man and then and there, the hero vows to make amends. The heroine has lived a torturous life with nothing coming easy to her and being forced to do disgusting things to see her family cared for. As a child, she inadvertently caused the mental illness in her baby brother and was the cause of her mothers blindness. As a result, at the age of Thirteen she was pressured into the sex trade business and has been suffering the life of a whore every day since. To deal with what she has to do from sundown to 1am every night, the heroine has developed a magical escape world where she goes and dreams about her family and about how happy life can truly be. But this escape doesn't save her from the thinking that she is worthless and disgusting. So when the hero comes calling, offering her $50 a night to just spend time with him, she is hesitate and distrusting of his true motives. What sane man would spend that amount of money on a whore without even trying to sleep with her? The hero, that's who. He wants to save her, see her happy and away from the life she lives now. He doesn't understand her hesitation to take his offer until he sees her family. She's the only thing between them and destitution. But nothings going to stop him from making her his wife. Not the heroine's naïve innocence nor the fact that she's pregnant by another man. But it's hard to love a woman who doesn't love herself and her fear is slowly pushing him away. I thought this book as certainly a step up from the other books I've read from this author in that I was actually engaged by the characters. There was true heart in this book as well as pain and drama and suffering, but at the base of it was a truly good man loving a truly good woman. Once again the long drawn out conversations made my head hurt and my strain from all the eye rolls but if a skimmed those stupid parts, I found that I actually rather liked this story. Not often do you read about a heroine who's a prostitute but because she escapes into her dream world every night, she was still a bashful, timid woman who's even a virgin in a lot of ways. She made it so damn hard to like her a lot of the time because she was so fearful of being hurt. The hero had to put in a lot of work to win her over and even then, they had to deal with the fact she leaves her body every time she has sex. Overall, it was a better book than others I've read by this author but still not nearly worth a higher rating. ( )

3 out of 5 stars. It's definitely a telling story of those who lived during the Civil War time period. I mean everyone is just defending their own loved ones, the only problem is that (like what still happens now in any war) the ones who really get hurt and the ones that aren't even fighting in the war (the women and children). Very touching, and emotional. Good read. (However .... I think it dragged in a few areas ... still good though.)

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Wow. What a roller coaster of emotion. When Hunter first takes Loretta from her home, I had no idea how the author would turn this story around, but she did...in a very believable way. The violence made me uncomfortable, but it was an ugly fact in the Nation's history, with both parties committing atrocious acts of cruelty. Both Loretta and Hunter's painful past led to misconceptions and beliefs that were difficult to move beyond, despite their growing feelings for one another. Their love was not an easy one and acceptance of new ways came slow.

Hunter's patience was endearing. Especially while he cared for Amy after her terrible ordeal. Lots of well written characters made me fall in love with this book. The pace was exciting, the writing compelling. I really, really enjoyed this. ( )