Prairie Embrace

Story takes place near the Pine Ridge Rez in S.D. about the time of the infamous Wounded Knee Massacre. Finally a story not about a sassy white virgin that is captured by a lusty Indian Warrior. Instead Ms. Bittner spins a heart wrenching tale about a young settler named Katie whom endured a childhood of abuse from her father and is later forced into a loveless marriage to a man whom mentally and physically abuses her. Katie is someone today's women can relate too. The answer to her prayers appears the day, Tohave; a handsome half Lakota half Cheyenne warrior, decides to play an intimidating prank on her husband's wagon finding her hidden in the back. Tohave resides in devastation watching helplessly as the government starves his people, rapes their women, as his pals hang themselves to escape the endless torment. Tohave takes one look at Katie and knows she is an abused wife, despite the fact he should abhorred the white race, he pities her and seeks to take her to his heart. He finds someone to give him a reason to live and she finds a man who can offer true love. The story is filled with romance, adventure, and heart breaking scenes especially during the recreation of Wounded Knee. This story is very much an original as it takes many surprising turns of events.

This is a beautiful and touching love story. You cannot help but to fall in love with Tihave and feel heartache at Katie's plight. My only complaint is that I wish they could have had more time together in the middle of the story and that she had included epilogue about them. Lawless Love is still my favorite but this one, and Sweet Mountain Magic are close runners up.

Gentle readers might need to keep a box of kleenex handy as this is a real tearjerker. Young and beautiful Katie journeys west with her much older abusive husband.Tohave an Indian brave meets katie and there mutual attraction grows into forbidden love.He comforts Katie as her husband becomes increasingly brutal to her and the two make plans to run away together.But there is much heartache in store before the two lovers can finally be together.This is a wonderful love story which shows the triumph of the human spirit over hardships how and heartache and how love conquers all.Tohave and Katie's love saw no color or race.This is a must buy for lovers of Indian romance.I re-read this book several times each year.My very old copy is falling apart so I will have to buy it again.

Katie was forced to marry her father's best friend, Ezra Russell, because Ezra (a childless widower) needed a woman to go west with him.For as long as Katie knew she has been abused, first by her father, then by her drunk older husband. While riding out to the prairies of Nebraska, Indians ride down on their wagon. They should be on the reservation, but their leader, Tohave, likes to play tricks and tease the newcoming settlers.Finding Katie in the back of the wagon, Tohave can't believe such a beautiful woman can be married to the ugly old man driving the wagon.Ezra, thinks women are only for doing chores and making babies, not believing that a woman would actually want him on his own merits, he thinks he needs to abuse women to get what he wants.Tohave is Katie's only hope, and only true love. They'll be together no mattter what hardship befalls them.DON'T PASS THIS UP... Bittner gets better with every book!

Forced to marry her father's friend Ezra, the hot and lonely Southwest Nebraska land which Ezra says is to be her new home is no place for a girl like Katie Russell. However her seemingly doomed future in the barren land is changed when their covered wagon is surrounded by the most feared thing in the land... Indians.While hiding in the back of her wagon, she suddenly comes face to face with the handsome savage who has not only stolen her attention and her thoughts, but her dreams and heart as well.Prairie Embrace tells of how two people can overcome all odds to be with each other. This is Indian romance at its best. Don't miss this one!