This isn't my favorite by Beverly Jenkins, but gosh I still have to give two thumbs up to a romance premise that's essentially, this stranger who happens to be my legal son-in-law will resolve debt I shouldn't owe and just discovered yesterday by making me his mistress and, well, it could always be worse, I guess! I love how intentionally Jenkins centers Indigenous history and characters in all of her Westerns, and this is no exception. I didn't feel a whole lot of chemistry between these two leads, though, and I didn't love the villain backstory's use of

abortion as a villainous character device

Also the "male-ness" was seriously dialed up here and I could have done without.