Author: aprilwgardner

It’s 1917, and Halifax is at war. Silas Quinn, street sweeper and army reject, remains on the home front, shunning God and society as religiously as they shun him. But the night he stumbles across a half-frozen prostitute, his eyes blink open, and his greater purpose is born: preserve and protect.There’d been a day when shop girl Helen Fraser was desperate enough to believe a few nights in a … nights in a brothel would cure her troubles. By some miracle, Major Jack Gordon deemed her worth saving, but Helen knows her meticulously recreated identity cannot last. What she doesn’t…

For the DEFIANCE of a nation. For the DEFENSE of a tribe. For the LOVE of a war woman.War woman Fierce Mink has loved Tall Bull as long as memory. He is beauty and power, but in the secret pockets of her spirit, he is vastly more. He is the brave to whom she swore her heart, the friend to whom she owes her life, and the chief to whom she will never be bound. Soon, he will be required to take a … to take a wife, but lamentably, Mink is severe, intimidating, hard-bitten by war—qualities a man appreciates…