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One woman with a deep desire to serve and help. One brave who will stop at nothing to save his people. Each willing to die for their beliefs and love for one another. Will their sacrifice
be enough?
As a female medical doctor in 1864, Sadie Hoppner is no stranger to tragedy and loss. While she grapples with the difficulties of practicing medicine at a Colorado outpost, she learns that finding acceptance and respect proves especially difficult at Fort Lyon.
Cheyenne brave Five Kills wants peace between his people and the American Army. But a chance encounter with their female doctor ignites memories from his upbringing among the whites … along with a growing fondness for the one person who seems to understand him and his people. As two cultures collide with differing beliefs of right and wrong, of what constitutes justice and savagery, blood spills on the Great Plains. When the inevitable war reaches Fort Lyon, the young couple's fledgling love is put to the test.
As a female medical doctor in 1864, Sadie Hoppner is no stranger to tragedy and loss. While she grapples with the difficulties of practicing medicine at a Colorado outpost, she learns that finding acceptance and respect proves especially difficult at Fort Lyon.
Cheyenne brave Five Kills wants peace between his people and the American Army. But a chance encounter with their female doctor ignites memories from his upbringing among the whites … along with a growing fondness for the one person who seems to understand him and his people. As two cultures collide with differing beliefs of right and wrong, of what constitutes justice and savagery, blood spills on the Great Plains. When the inevitable war reaches Fort Lyon, the young couple's fledgling love is put to the test.
My Thoughts:
This was a romance story that takes place in a time when a white woman and a Native American man's love would have been forbidden. This is also a time of tentative peace between the US government and the Native American tribes. Based on the massacre that happened at Sand Creek, the author takes us right into that conflict, where evil men decided to take vengeance for themselves.
Sadie Hoppner is a doctor who is working along side her doctor brother at a military fort. Not everyone accepts her, but she strives to prove herself as every bit of a competent doctor as her brother is.
Five Kills is half white and Native American. He knows languages and so he has a very important job as translator. He catches sight of Sadie and he knows deep down he wants to get to know her more and her books. However, there is political upheaval in the military ranks and not everything is as it seems, which leads up to this devastating massacre in history.
I like that we had a romance to root for as the atrocities of this event were hard to read about, and I know we didn't get every detail. If ever the author wanted to, I would very much like to read more about Sadie and Five Kills. I very much enjoyed watching these two fall in love, while seemingly battling the world, and finding true faith. Five Kills knew he needed help that was beyond him and the author did a good job telling his faith journey.
I received a copy of this novel from the author. I was not required to post a positive review and all views and opinions are my own.
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