When Gabe Beaumont was forced to choose between the Sioux tribe of his mother and the white family of his father, his choice ended up costing him everything. Settlers murdered his Indian wife and child, and now revenge is all he lives for. Riding westward with a renegade Sioux band, he becomes Tall Bear, a warrior with a wounded soul-until a raid on a Wyoming stagecoach station brought him … face-to-face with a feisty, red-haired beauty who could change his life…
Now two independent spirits will move heaven and earth to be with each other-and to fight for love against the shadows and the danger that lurks in his wild heart of the frontier.
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Great main characters, each with painful histories. As tough as Gabe’s life has been it sure seems that Faith almost has a times a tougher one. More than one man has deeply disappointed her. And her charming first husband Johnny was someone that she loved but he was full of empty promises and wild dreams. Things did not end up well for Johnny and it was just a matter of how and well as far as I could see.
There are good secondary people in the story. People who were there for Faith. Buck was one of them who consistently showed up when she needed help. I should mention here that so did Tall Bear/Gabe. Faith prayed for help and often Tall Bear showed up. A woman in the story who became important to Faith was named Hilda and they became really close. She taught Faith so much and became like her second mother.
There are plenty of “haters” out there when it comes to Gabe and his half Indian heritage.
Of course Faith also was not the average woman of her time. She had spunk, determination and a desire to succeed. The very things that her religious father tried to stamp out of her are the things that are helping her to survive. It also attracts people to her as well. Some good and some not so good. Someone else who was a surprise was Bret Flowers and she has more good in her than people originally would think. A lot of people didn’t want to have anything to do with her at first.
The not so good people that I mentioned caused some pretty severe problems against Gabe and Faith but it’s really good how it all gets overcome at the end. I felt like this was a really well written story about two people with wild hearts, love and grit. The story also ends giving us a good look a few years later showing us even more of how things ended and for some began again. It might not have been marked Epilogue but it was.
I love western/frontier historical romances. I just love the simple way of living but also the danger that is around every corner. Tame the Wild Wind is my 6th book by Rosanne Bittner and another great historical romance that had me hooked until the end. In these type of stories the female characters are mostly very strong and independent, and that was also the case for this book. I loved how resilient Faith was and how determined she was to accomplish her dreams. But she was also smart enough to understand when she needed help. I loved that the author started from the beginning to give the reader a good idea what the main characters Faith and Tall Bear/Gabe went through in their lives. You see all their ups and downs and smile and mourn when they do.
Faith and Gabe come into each other’s lives at the right moments. I just loved seeing these two develop feeling for one another. I believed in their love and that they were made for each other. I really enjoyed this book a lot, however I wanted more scenes where Gabe and Faith were together. There were a couple of times these two were separated, and I just couldn’t wait for them to be reunited again. I have to admit that there were a couple of chapters I skipped, because I was becoming a bit impatient for them to be together again. Overall, this was a very enjoyable and great historical romance about very intriguing characters.