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Walk Into the Flame
The New Mexico Mescalero Indians raised Rachel as one of their own after her father abandoned her. However, unable to ignore her white heritage and fearing her love for Swift Buck, Silent Wind left the tribe to live in the white world. She not only deserted the people who nurtured her, but also destroyed the love of Swift Buck.
For five years an abashed Rachel watches the harassment and murder of her former tribe even on their reservation. She returns to her tribe with a deep desire to help in the fight against the hell that the whites have imposed on her people. Angry at her for leaving and at the whites for killing his fellow Apaches including his wife, White Buck abducts Rachel. He plans to use her as a pawn enabling him to flee the infernal jail the soldiers call a reservation, but did not count on their former love rekindling even brighter than before.
For five years an abashed Rachel watches the harassment and murder of her former tribe even on their reservation. She returns to her tribe with a deep desire to help in the fight against the hell that the whites have imposed on her people. Angry at her for leaving and at the whites for killing his fellow Apaches including his wife, White Buck abducts Rachel. He plans to use her as a pawn enabling him to flee the infernal jail the soldiers call a reservation, but did not count on their former love rekindling even brighter than before.
384 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2003
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Ronda Thompson
26 books135 followersRonda Thompson lived in the great state of Texas. Ronda had been an avid fan of romance for years and was published in several different genres. Paranormal romance is one of her favorite genres to write because anything can happen and usually does!
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February 7, 2025
I feel like this may be the second book in a series - maybe the sequel to Cougar's Woman, it looks like? There were references to a lot of things as if they'd happened in another book. But that didn't take away from the story too much. I still absolutely LOVED this.
Rachel Morgan is a white woman who was raised with Apaches, called Silent Wind, after her abusive father abandoned her with them when she was a small child. She lived with them until she was 18 and was mute the whole time, had a severe mistrust of men, and left The People when she realized her feelings for her adoptive brother Swift Buck were forbidden. There were references to her having a half-brother in the tribe who tried to kill her over their white father, killed two of her friends when they tried to defend her, and also killed his own mother after his father killed himself over her cheating on him.
Five years later she returns only to find The People living on a squalid reservation. Swift Buck feels extremely betrayed by her for abandoning them for so long, and takes her captive as a ploy to get himself, his sick mother and his young daughter off the reservation so he can try to find any surviving members of their tribe still living in the mountains and come back to rescue the others.
They are pursued by soldiers from the fort, but Silent Wind jumps behind Swift Buck on his horse so they'll stop shooting at him to protect him and his daughter. Later, when they're found by the soldiers in the mountain, she sneaks away with the little girl to return her to Swift Buck so he can continue to take her home - but he "recaptures" Silent Wind as well and brings her to the survivors' camp.
At first she is not welcomed back by The People, who believe she abandoned them too. Swift Buck also publicly disowns her as his adoptive sister. Silent Wind is treated as a captive for a while. But eventually she and Swift Buck stop pretending they ever saw each other as siblings and confess their love. Silent Wind overhears that the men plan on attacking the fort with only the few dozen in the band, so she sneaks away to find the soldiers to try to convince them to go back to the fort and like... free The People. Swift Buck knows she didn't do it to betray them and goes after her, gets himself captured, and Silent Wind reveals herself to the soldiers as having been raised with the Apache - and they're both charged with treason and sentenced to death.
On the morning on their execution hundreds of Apache start to race towards the fort, the People in the reservation begin to revolt, and Silent Wind's brother Cougar shows up with enough gold to buy off all the soldiers into releasing them for the time being.
Rachel Morgan is a white woman who was raised with Apaches, called Silent Wind, after her abusive father abandoned her with them when she was a small child. She lived with them until she was 18 and was mute the whole time, had a severe mistrust of men, and left The People when she realized her feelings for her adoptive brother Swift Buck were forbidden. There were references to her having a half-brother in the tribe who tried to kill her over their white father, killed two of her friends when they tried to defend her, and also killed his own mother after his father killed himself over her cheating on him.
Five years later she returns only to find The People living on a squalid reservation. Swift Buck feels extremely betrayed by her for abandoning them for so long, and takes her captive as a ploy to get himself, his sick mother and his young daughter off the reservation so he can try to find any surviving members of their tribe still living in the mountains and come back to rescue the others.
They are pursued by soldiers from the fort, but Silent Wind jumps behind Swift Buck on his horse so they'll stop shooting at him to protect him and his daughter. Later, when they're found by the soldiers in the mountain, she sneaks away with the little girl to return her to Swift Buck so he can continue to take her home - but he "recaptures" Silent Wind as well and brings her to the survivors' camp.
At first she is not welcomed back by The People, who believe she abandoned them too. Swift Buck also publicly disowns her as his adoptive sister. Silent Wind is treated as a captive for a while. But eventually she and Swift Buck stop pretending they ever saw each other as siblings and confess their love. Silent Wind overhears that the men plan on attacking the fort with only the few dozen in the band, so she sneaks away to find the soldiers to try to convince them to go back to the fort and like... free The People. Swift Buck knows she didn't do it to betray them and goes after her, gets himself captured, and Silent Wind reveals herself to the soldiers as having been raised with the Apache - and they're both charged with treason and sentenced to death.
On the morning on their execution hundreds of Apache start to race towards the fort, the People in the reservation begin to revolt, and Silent Wind's brother Cougar shows up with enough gold to buy off all the soldiers into releasing them for the time being.
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