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In 1859 in the Nebraska Territory, Jeremy Jones tries to impress his family and his beloved White Dove by taking honey from a hive. However, he soon finds himself and an Indian lad in danger from a bear. White Dove saves his life. She beat Jeremy when they compete and taunts him by saying that he is not as good a warrior as she is.

Jeremy realizes that the only way he will become husband to his beloved White Dove is to become a Lakota warrior because she believes her mate will be a great warrior. To White Dove's shock, he asks her father to teach him and her father assigns her to train Jeremy. Even more shocking, Jeremy takes to her teaching like a pro. However, will she ever accept him as that great warrior mate that Jeremy desperately wants to be?

Susan Edwards 'WHITE' novels (see WHITE WOLF and WHITE WIND) have quickly become one of the more popular Native Americana romance series in the genre. Her latest tale, WHITE DOVE, may be the best of the group as the plot provides her audience with a gender bender heroine and the only man who accepts her as she is. The return of the lead characters from other books in this series now shine in their own tale. Secondary characters making a brief appearance from previous and that adds a feeling of homecoming especially since the story line is what fans expect from a Susan Edwards story: exciting, non-stop action and romance. Still this Annie Get Your Gun rendition works because Ms. Edwards describes people readers want to meet and know.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted July 24, 2001

White Dove had been raised to know that

she must marry a powerful warrior.

The

daughter of the great Golden Eagle

was

required to wed one of her own kind,

a man

who would bring honor to her people

and

strength to her tribe. Her pride

would have

required it, even if her duty had

not. But

the young Irishman who returned to

seek

her hand made her question herself

and

made her question what made a man.

Jeremy Jones had changed since last

theyíd

met. The Oregon Trail had hardened

him,

and he was clearly no longer a boy.

Heíd

come back to the Nebraska Territory

with

both a glint in his eye and a desire

that

made White Dove tingle with

pleasure.

Heíd returned to be trained as a

warrior, to

take the tests of manhood and prove

himself

in battle. Watching him, White Dove

saw a

bravery sheíd never known, and

suddenly

she realized her young suitor was

not just a

man, he was the only one sheíd ever

love.