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The Cherokee Trilogy #4
The Beloved Woman
HER PEOPLE UPROOTED BY BROKEN PROMISES, HER HEART TORN BY CONLICTING DESIRESâ ¦
The Trail of The forced exodus of the Cherokee people from their homeland in Georgia to make way for the white gold miners and settlers. Katherine Blue Song’s family never lived to see the Trail of Tears â they were massacred just as she returned from Philadelphia, where she’d been one of the country’s first women trained as a doctor.
Justis Gallatin, a white man, a rough-and-ready man, was Jesse Blue Song’s friend and partner. Before he buried the victims of the massacre, he made a solemn promise to protect Katherine. But the lovely and headstrong Cherokee healer would not be protected or owned by any man â her destiny was with her own people, to use her skills on the long, arduous journey westward.
From plush New York hotels to the savage sorrow of the Trail of Tears, Katherine and Justis were torn asunder by a continent’s history and hurled together because of a passion as vast as the lands they loved, lost, and fought to regain.
The Trail of The forced exodus of the Cherokee people from their homeland in Georgia to make way for the white gold miners and settlers. Katherine Blue Song’s family never lived to see the Trail of Tears â they were massacred just as she returned from Philadelphia, where she’d been one of the country’s first women trained as a doctor.
Justis Gallatin, a white man, a rough-and-ready man, was Jesse Blue Song’s friend and partner. Before he buried the victims of the massacre, he made a solemn promise to protect Katherine. But the lovely and headstrong Cherokee healer would not be protected or owned by any man â her destiny was with her own people, to use her skills on the long, arduous journey westward.
From plush New York hotels to the savage sorrow of the Trail of Tears, Katherine and Justis were torn asunder by a continent’s history and hurled together because of a passion as vast as the lands they loved, lost, and fought to regain.
368 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1991
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About the author
Deborah Smith
81 books420 followersaka Jackie Leigh
aka Della Stone
aka Leigh Bridger
Bestselling Author
Co-founder, co-publisher
Vice-president, Editor in Chief
BelleBooks, Memphis, TN
Deborah Smith is the New York Times bestselling author of A Place to Call Home, and the No. 1 Kindle Bestseller The Crossroads Cafe, A Gentle Rain and other acclaimed romantic novels portraying life and love in the modern Appalachian South. A native Georgian, Deborah is a former newspaper editor who turned to novel-writing with great success.
With more than 35 romance, women's fiction and fantasy novels to her credit, Deborah's books have sold over 3 million copies worldwide. Among her honors is a Lifetime Achievement Award from Romantic Times Magazine and a nomination for the prestigious Townsend Literary Award. In 2003 Disney optioned Sweet Hush for film. In 2008 A Gentle Rain was a finalist in Romance Writers of America's RITA awards.
For the past fifteen years Deborah has partnered with Debra Dixon to run BelleBooks, a small press originally known for southern fiction, including the Mossy Creek Hometown Series and the Sweet Tea story collections. As editor, she has worked on projects as diverse as the nonfiction Bra Talk book by three-time Oprah Winfrey guest Susan Nethero, and the In My Dreams novella by New York Times bestselling author Sarah Addison Allen.
In 2008 BelleBooks launched Bell Bridge Books, an imprint with a focus on fantasy novels and now expanded to include multi-genre fiction--mystery, suspense, thrillers, women's fiction, nonfiction and other. In 2013 BelleBooks acquired the late Linda Kichline's paranormal romance press, ImaJinn Books, and hired legendary editor Brenda Chin, formerly of Harlequin Books, as editorial director. Chin will expand the imprint to cover a diverse mix of all romance types.
Deborah's newest books are the Crossroads Cafe novellas: THE BISCUIT WITCH, THE PICKLE QUEEN, THE YARN SPINNER, and THE KITCHEN CHARMER (2014). She released a mini-short story, SAVING JONQUILS, in March 2014. A sexy romantic novella, A HARD MAN TO FIND, is scheduled for later in the month.
aka Della Stone
aka Leigh Bridger
Bestselling Author
Co-founder, co-publisher
Vice-president, Editor in Chief
BelleBooks, Memphis, TN
Deborah Smith is the New York Times bestselling author of A Place to Call Home, and the No. 1 Kindle Bestseller The Crossroads Cafe, A Gentle Rain and other acclaimed romantic novels portraying life and love in the modern Appalachian South. A native Georgian, Deborah is a former newspaper editor who turned to novel-writing with great success.
With more than 35 romance, women's fiction and fantasy novels to her credit, Deborah's books have sold over 3 million copies worldwide. Among her honors is a Lifetime Achievement Award from Romantic Times Magazine and a nomination for the prestigious Townsend Literary Award. In 2003 Disney optioned Sweet Hush for film. In 2008 A Gentle Rain was a finalist in Romance Writers of America's RITA awards.
For the past fifteen years Deborah has partnered with Debra Dixon to run BelleBooks, a small press originally known for southern fiction, including the Mossy Creek Hometown Series and the Sweet Tea story collections. As editor, she has worked on projects as diverse as the nonfiction Bra Talk book by three-time Oprah Winfrey guest Susan Nethero, and the In My Dreams novella by New York Times bestselling author Sarah Addison Allen.
In 2008 BelleBooks launched Bell Bridge Books, an imprint with a focus on fantasy novels and now expanded to include multi-genre fiction--mystery, suspense, thrillers, women's fiction, nonfiction and other. In 2013 BelleBooks acquired the late Linda Kichline's paranormal romance press, ImaJinn Books, and hired legendary editor Brenda Chin, formerly of Harlequin Books, as editorial director. Chin will expand the imprint to cover a diverse mix of all romance types.
Deborah's newest books are the Crossroads Cafe novellas: THE BISCUIT WITCH, THE PICKLE QUEEN, THE YARN SPINNER, and THE KITCHEN CHARMER (2014). She released a mini-short story, SAVING JONQUILS, in March 2014. A sexy romantic novella, A HARD MAN TO FIND, is scheduled for later in the month.
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January 25, 2016
Typical fluff with a happy ending but this was very tedious to read! How could so much things go wrong in one book, and with problems which could be resolved in a moment if the hapless pair would simply talk to each other? Oh well, I guess this is all part of the game with a book like this. The romance genre would practically disappear overnight if it ever became compulsory for the hero and heroine to explain things to each other but this book just kept surprising me with this kind of stupidity until the last couple of pages! I got one good thing out of this though, for it sparked my interest in the Trail of Tears. I look forward to read more about it but next time in a different genre than a bodice ripper. I never expected substance from this read but, at the very least, I expected to be entertained, not frustrated!
March 25, 2015
Don't judge me.
I read this book a long time ago... like in my teens. Several times in fact. -- I used to have a thing for romance novels. I think that's just part of being a teenage girl. When I say romance novels, I mean the trashy kind. And by trashy, I mean that in the most delicious way. So I'm giving it five stars, but I'm qualifying that by saying that I'm giving it five stars among the rest of the bodice rippers, but not among literature in general. This is not literature. But even bodice rippers have their place and are a valid, if low brow, genre. That being said, I'd read this book again today if I could find a copy, just to maybe break up the monotony and have a bit of fluff.
Then again, it's been about 15 years, so it may not be as great as I remember it. Seriously, I really would like to find another copy of this.
Again, don't judge me. You're not all sitting around reading Dostoevsky yourselves, are you?
I read this book a long time ago... like in my teens. Several times in fact. -- I used to have a thing for romance novels. I think that's just part of being a teenage girl. When I say romance novels, I mean the trashy kind. And by trashy, I mean that in the most delicious way. So I'm giving it five stars, but I'm qualifying that by saying that I'm giving it five stars among the rest of the bodice rippers, but not among literature in general. This is not literature. But even bodice rippers have their place and are a valid, if low brow, genre. That being said, I'd read this book again today if I could find a copy, just to maybe break up the monotony and have a bit of fluff.
Then again, it's been about 15 years, so it may not be as great as I remember it. Seriously, I really would like to find another copy of this.
Again, don't judge me. You're not all sitting around reading Dostoevsky yourselves, are you?
February 13, 2015
Makes you think...about the Trail of Tears...good read..hard to put down.
September 25, 2017
I had somewhat mixed feelings about this book. As with the rest of those I've read by this author, she hooks me right away, and her descriptions of settings and characters are rich, varied, and authentic. Especially the horror of the Trail of Tears. However, I didn't buy the push-pull between the two main characters, Katherine and Justis. Just when they'd get together, something would pull them apart, and yes, that's a good romance formula. But often, it was Katherine simply turning on a dime and going from loving Justis to suspecting him of ulterior or negative motives. It was a bit contrived. But I'll forgive Deborah Smith anything because she wrote Sweet Hush, which is my all-time favorite romance.
December 1, 2019
The powerful pictures painted in this story explain the horror of the relocation of the Cherokee peoples. I have lived my entire life in Oklahoma, Indian Territory. The injustices done to the native peoples of this country do not go unnoticed in this state. Thank you to the author for portraying it so well.
August 17, 2017
I own this in a paperback and recently re-bought it for the kindle.
January 14, 2019
My favorite book by Deborah Smith!
I keep re-reading this book over and over. I never get tired of it. I have never been disappointed with any of her books.
I keep re-reading this book over and over. I never get tired of it. I have never been disappointed with any of her books.
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