The Guardian

The Guardian is an amazing story combining historical romance with folklore. While traveling west with her minister husband and other missionaries, Charity Bennett finds herself alone and unsure about her husband's decision to go west where so much is uncertain. Black Sun, an Arapaho doctor on a spirit quest, finds her alone and injured and cares for her, though he cannot wait until he can leave her with other white people. I was further pulled into the story by the folklore that Black Sun shared with Charity, I felt it was very meaningful to the story and helped make the story more than just historical romance. Elizabeth Lane's imagery of both the prairie lands and the difficulties faced by Charity and Black Sun wrapped into my imagination filling every sense. The Guardian is an enjoyable story for a rainy afternoon.