Title: Hawk’s Woman
Author: Madeline Baker
Publisher: Cerridwen Press
Publisher URL: http://www.jasminejade.com/
ISBN: 978-1-41991-759-2
Genre: Historical Romance
Nymph Rating: 4 Nymphs
Literary Nymphs Reviewer: Goddess Minx
John Walking Hawk, who is going by Clayton at the moment, is a wanted man. He’s also a half breed on a mission to avenge his dead Indian wife without thought of who he was leaving behind, namely his daughter Anna. After killing five of the six men in a fair fight that he picked, he is searching for the last man and then he can go home. In the meantime, he is captured by a bitter sheriff whose plans include long bouts of suffering and that is not something Hawk is looking forward to. Now that he has escaped from the jail and is the run with a bullet wound, he ends up at a convent on the outskirts of town. When Hallie finds him lying half dead, she is not sure what to do but immediately feels the attraction between them.
Hallie McIntyre has always lead a very quiet life; first with her parents and then grandmother. Now at the age of seventeen, she is about to become a nun. Her father deserted them when she was very young and her mother died from grieving over a husband who was not what he should have been. Being around Hawk did nothing for her peace of mind, only had her thinking of what it would be like to be loved by him. What she does to help him goes against everything she has been taught. Because of her promise to him not to tell anyone at the convent she was helping him was causing her a lot of distress with her faith in God, along with keeping it from the Reverend Mother.
Hawk’s Woman was not what I expected at all from the description of the genre but I was pleasantly surprised. This was a plus novel that kept me reading every opportunity to see what would happen with the two main characters and I was not disappointed. There was a lot of deceit on the part of others in telling Hallie the truth about her father and she was able to forgive him for deserting her. When the two lovers finally come together it is very explosive for them each time, and the end results were not what they wanted or expected.
Madeline Baker had done a fantastic job of telling this story about two very different ways of life among the Lakota and white families. More often than not, there were a lot of similarities in the lifestyles that will have you wondering about it if indeed being the same. This book had me laughing and hoping that bodily harm was done to one or more of them but overall I would not change the innocence of a young girl blossoming into a new life.
Author: Madeline Baker
Publisher: Cerridwen Press
Publisher URL: http://www.jasminejade.com/
ISBN: 978-1-41991-759-2
Genre: Historical Romance
Nymph Rating: 4 Nymphs
Literary Nymphs Reviewer: Goddess Minx
John Walking Hawk, who is going by Clayton at the moment, is a wanted man. He’s also a half breed on a mission to avenge his dead Indian wife without thought of who he was leaving behind, namely his daughter Anna. After killing five of the six men in a fair fight that he picked, he is searching for the last man and then he can go home. In the meantime, he is captured by a bitter sheriff whose plans include long bouts of suffering and that is not something Hawk is looking forward to. Now that he has escaped from the jail and is the run with a bullet wound, he ends up at a convent on the outskirts of town. When Hallie finds him lying half dead, she is not sure what to do but immediately feels the attraction between them.
Hallie McIntyre has always lead a very quiet life; first with her parents and then grandmother. Now at the age of seventeen, she is about to become a nun. Her father deserted them when she was very young and her mother died from grieving over a husband who was not what he should have been. Being around Hawk did nothing for her peace of mind, only had her thinking of what it would be like to be loved by him. What she does to help him goes against everything she has been taught. Because of her promise to him not to tell anyone at the convent she was helping him was causing her a lot of distress with her faith in God, along with keeping it from the Reverend Mother.
Hawk’s Woman was not what I expected at all from the description of the genre but I was pleasantly surprised. This was a plus novel that kept me reading every opportunity to see what would happen with the two main characters and I was not disappointed. There was a lot of deceit on the part of others in telling Hallie the truth about her father and she was able to forgive him for deserting her. When the two lovers finally come together it is very explosive for them each time, and the end results were not what they wanted or expected.
Madeline Baker had done a fantastic job of telling this story about two very different ways of life among the Lakota and white families. More often than not, there were a lot of similarities in the lifestyles that will have you wondering about it if indeed being the same. This book had me laughing and hoping that bodily harm was done to one or more of them but overall I would not change the innocence of a young girl blossoming into a new life.
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