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Panorama of the Old West #6
Cheyenne Caress
Johnny Ace gets hot under the collar when he is around young Luci, the part-Cheyenne laundress at Fort McPherson, and although filled with hatred of the Cheyenne who killed his folks, he comes clean with the alluring young lady
480 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1990
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Georgina Gentry
48 books106 followersGeorgina Gentry is a former Ford Foundation teacher who married her Irish-Indian college sweetheart. They have three grown children and seven grandchildren and make their home on a small lake in central Oklahoma. Georgina is known for the deep research and passion of her novels, resulting in two Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement awards for both Western and Indian Romance. Often a speaker at writers’ conferences, Georgina has also been inducted into the Oklahoma Professional Writer’s Hall of Fame. She holds the rare distinction of winning two back-to-back Best Western Romance of the Year awards for To Tame A Savage and To Tame A Texan. When she’s not writing or researching, Georgina enjoys gardening and collecting antiques.
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January 13, 2012
Sadly this book was not at all a winner for me. The writing was juvenile and just kind of bad. The lead characters fight the whole time until the end, the annoying heroine calls the hero "big stupid Pawnee" too many times to count. Then there were some disturbing side stories in which many characters had syphilis and a few women were violently raped.
Stay away from this book, if you want to read a Georgina Gentry try Cheyenne Song, Apache Caress or Warrior's Heart.
Stay away from this book, if you want to read a Georgina Gentry try Cheyenne Song, Apache Caress or Warrior's Heart.
February 20, 2017
Hot romance, Feisty heroines, and strong men.
Johnny Ace, I love that name and it has all sorts of things happening with it, it gives off a vibe, serious ones of maleness and strength, handsome and virile indeed.
Stareyes, such a feisty woman, and such sadness in how hard she has to work to survive.
Sometimes the trouble she gets into are often painful and then comes Johnny Ace saving her.
I must say the way the story twists and turns is entertaining and the chemistry between the two is steamy.
I enjoyed this book.
Scary how it was difficult for love to blossom in such a harsh environment.
Writes how hard it is for women when the soldiers come and go leaving the women behind that they impregnated. I mean her father is a piece of work.
Like i said..Johnny Ace is what kept me coming back for more.
Johnny Ace, I love that name and it has all sorts of things happening with it, it gives off a vibe, serious ones of maleness and strength, handsome and virile indeed.
Stareyes, such a feisty woman, and such sadness in how hard she has to work to survive.
Sometimes the trouble she gets into are often painful and then comes Johnny Ace saving her.
I must say the way the story twists and turns is entertaining and the chemistry between the two is steamy.
I enjoyed this book.
Scary how it was difficult for love to blossom in such a harsh environment.
Writes how hard it is for women when the soldiers come and go leaving the women behind that they impregnated. I mean her father is a piece of work.
Like i said..Johnny Ace is what kept me coming back for more.
September 2, 2018
This book is very nice. Awesome piece of writing and amazing creativity... I love this book.
July 16, 2025
Initial idea is good... but I feel like it was wasted.
The heroine is surprisingly childish and whiny (especially when taking into account her backstory). What makes her more unbearable is how she makes multiple stupid decisions but always get saved deux-ex machina style by the hero and avoid the consequences of her actions. In comparison any female character that were remotely antagonistic to the female lead all get brutally punished (to put it lightly) for making similar mistakes.
The hero was okay? He's not stellar (he does act questionably to the heroine sometimes) but not too annoying. Honestly all of his annoying moments are when he does irrational things because of his big stupid love for the heroine that honestly makes less sense as the book goes on.
Either way they seem to wander around indirectly getting other characters killed or worse (unless they're portrayed as unthreatening to either of the leads then they get either a happy or neutral ending). By the end of the book I hated the main leads and them getting together feels like a bad ending.
P.S. She was bitchy but justice for Deer she was an infinitely more compelling character than the heroine and deserved better than what she got.
The heroine is surprisingly childish and whiny (especially when taking into account her backstory). What makes her more unbearable is how she makes multiple stupid decisions but always get saved deux-ex machina style by the hero and avoid the consequences of her actions. In comparison any female character that were remotely antagonistic to the female lead all get brutally punished (to put it lightly) for making similar mistakes.
The hero was okay? He's not stellar (he does act questionably to the heroine sometimes) but not too annoying. Honestly all of his annoying moments are when he does irrational things because of his big stupid love for the heroine that honestly makes less sense as the book goes on.
Either way they seem to wander around indirectly getting other characters killed or worse (unless they're portrayed as unthreatening to either of the leads then they get either a happy or neutral ending). By the end of the book I hated the main leads and them getting together feels like a bad ending.
P.S. She was bitchy but justice for Deer she was an infinitely more compelling character than the heroine and deserved better than what she got.
October 8, 2020
A historical romance novel that helps tell the struggles of life in America in the 1800s. In this story a "half-breed" Pawnee scout Johnny Ace and a "half-breed" Cheyenne laundress named Luci come together at an American Fort. Both have lived among the whites more than their own people but aren't really fully welcome in either culture. The Pawnee worked most with the Americans especially against their tribal enemies the Cheyenne, and so even though they have so much in common they also hold the grudges of their tribes. Johnny Ace is constantly serving as Luci's hero and though she knows the least about her people she feels disloyal in her connection to him. This book reflected some of the brutalities of the Native American Cultures which were committed against other tribes and against the immigrant settlers many of whom spoke different languages. It was a time when winning war meant winning the women for your pleasure or worse, including Virgin sacrifices. The more I read the more I understand how so much hostility could have built between the Americans arriving in droves on their 'Iron horse' (trains) and shocked settlers at the "Injun" brutality against women and children.
March 7, 2018
Not a good option if you just want to read something to escape. The book has a lot of atrocities in early western.
October 6, 2014
Different read from the ones I read in the past
wow! I'm a big fan of native Indian stories and I got to say this one got me hook up. I couldn't put it down and love how the hero would not give her up even though she was being mean to him. Will be reading some more from this author.
wow! I'm a big fan of native Indian stories and I got to say this one got me hook up. I couldn't put it down and love how the hero would not give her up even though she was being mean to him. Will be reading some more from this author.
April 18, 2014
A bit too dated for me. The heroine was just too immature and a bit whiny.
July 27, 2016
2.75 stars
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