"An absorbing reading experience"

In 1859 in the Nebraska Territory, Jeremy Jones tries to impress his family and his beloved White Dove by taking honey from a hive. However, he soon finds himself and an Indian lad in danger from a bear. White Dove saves his life. She beat Jeremy when they compete and taunts him by saying that he is not as good a warrior as she is.

Jeremy realizes that the only way he will become husband to his beloved White Dove is to become a Lakota warrior because she believes her mate will be a great warrior. To White Dove's shock, he asks her father to teach him and her father assigns her to train Jeremy. Even more shocking, Jeremy takes to her teaching like a pro. However, will she ever accept him as that great warrior mate that Jeremy desperately wants to be?

Susan Edwards 'WHITE' novels (see WHITE WOLF and WHITE WIND) have quickly become one of the more popular Native Americana romance series in the genre. Her latest tale, WHITE DOVE, may be the best of the group as the plot provides her audience with a gender bender heroine and the only man who accepts her as she is. The return of the lead characters from other books in this series now shine in their own tale. Secondary characters making a brief appearance from previous and that adds a feeling of homecoming especially since the story line is what fans expect from a Susan Edwards story: exciting, non-stop action and romance. Still this Annie Get Your Gun rendition works because Ms. Edwards describes people readers want to meet and know.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted July 24, 2001

Summary

White Dove had been raised to know that she must marry a powerful warrior. The daughter of the great Golden Eagle was required to wed one of her own kind, a man who would bring honor to her people and strength to her tribe. Her pride would have required it, even if her duty had not. But the young Irishman who returned to seek her hand made her question herself and made her question what made a man. Jeremy Jones had changed since last theyíd met. The Oregon Trail had hardened him, and he was clearly no longer a boy. Heíd come back to the Nebraska Territory with both a glint in his eye and a desire that made White Dove tingle with pleasure. Heíd returned to be trained as a warrior, to take the tests of manhood and prove himself in battle. Watching him, White Dove saw a bravery sheíd never known, and suddenly she realized her young suitor was not just a man, he was the only one sheíd ever love.