"Exhilarating Native American police procedural romance"

Dane White Eagle works undercover for the FBI at the Cold Creek Lakota Reservation in South Dakota trying to find the lab where the Big Elk gang makes dangerous Ecstasy to sell to tribe members. Dane takes his dying thirteen year old sister Kylee to a party in Rapid City, but stops at his home. When he returns he finds Kylee shot with his revolver in her good hand. He quickly takes her to the nearby Pennington General ER where Dr. Claire Colby pronounces Kylee dead.

Dane's FBI partners arrange for him to be convicted of his sister's murder. In prison he befriends Big Elk before being released on a technicality. Big Elk's brother Leland adds Dane to the team at the same time Claire joins the Red Star Clinic on the Cold creek reservation. As she and Dane meet outside a medical facility, they fall in love, which places her in danger from the Big Elk gang even as Dane nears achieving his personal objective of finding his sister's killer.

This exhilarating Native American police procedural romance is action packed starring two caring protagonists, especially Dane. His courage is unbelievable not because of risking his life, which he does, but because he knows how much he has hurt his mother yet knows his sacrifice is the right thing. The motive for killing Kylee seems ridiculous even though life is cheap to the culprit. Adding to the fine tale is strong support characters to include the two fed partners, Kylee's dog, Claire's medical friend, Dane's sis, mom and surrogate grandfather, and the comparison between the two gang brothers. Together the cast makes for a strong tale.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted November 28, 2004

Summary

What happens when undercover FBI agent Dane White Eagle is

What happens when beautiful trauma doctor Claire Colby is the best witness against Dane that the prosecuting attorney has?

Hiding his work on a drug sting with the FBI from his friends and family isn't the most difficult thing Dane White Eagle has done. But, allowing himself to be convicted for his twelve-year old sister's murder and falling in love with the woman who helped put him in prison certainly is.

As Assistant Director of the Trauma Department at Pennington Hospital, Dr. Claire Colby has dedicated her life to healing the sick and wounded. She never imagined that learning to trust her heart and falling in love with Dane White Eagle, a convicted murderer from Cold Creek Reservation, would be the most magnificent healing of all.