A suffragist and a Lakota warrior fight for their rights and their love.
In 1880 11 year old Philadelphia (Del) Stratton meets 15 year old Crow Eagle, a rebellious Lakota boy, at the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania where her father is an instructor. Wrenched from his people on the reservation and brought to Carlisle to become Americanized, the reluctant but deep bond the belligerent boy forms with the idealistic girl is severed when he returns to his people. Ten years later they are reunited when Del's fight for women's rights takes her to Dakota Territory on the verge of statehood. There, Crow Eagle, now a strong warrior, is fighting to retain his people's way of life and keep their hope alive through the Ghost Dance movement. And the friendship that began years earlier blossoms into forbidden love that will not be denied.
Excerpt
"I brought you something." She held a cup out to him. "It's only water," she said when he eyed it with suspicion.
His strong brown fingers touched hers as he took the cup from her hand. The brief brush of flesh against flesh sent an unexpected tremor coursing down her spine. She stepped back and watched him drink in long, measured swallows, unable to will her gaze away from the column of his throat and the smooth skin of his chest. To hide her nervousness, she reached for the pitchfork and began filling the hay racks, all the while feeling the weight of his dark eyes upon her.
"I'll take a look at that wound now to see if it's healing properly."
She followed him back to his resting place, her gaze traveling quickly but thoroughly over him, noticing that he moved with the grace and stealth of a panther, how the muscles in his broad back flexed with strength, and the way his long, black hair fell like heavy silken ribbons against the brown flesh of his shoulders.
His skin jumped at her touch as she applied a cooling salve over the wound. Even if he were without sight and unable to hear, he would have known her anywhere just from the scent of her. It was the same clean, sweet smell he remembered from a long time ago filling his senses with memory and longing.
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