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She Steals My Breath

Mon, 31 Oct 2022 18:16:47 +0200

BIO

KAREN KAY/GEN BAILEY

Multi-published Author of American Indian Historical Romances, KAREN KAY, aka GEN BAILEY, has been praised by reviewers and fans alike for bringing insights into the everyday life of the American Indian culture of the past. As Reviewer, Suzanne Tucker, once wrote, "Ms. Kay never fails to capture the pride, the passion and the spirit of the American Indian... As in each and every one of her mesmerizing Indian stories, we're moved beyond words. We feel more, we understand better, we love deeper. They are healing stories of hope, of tenderness, of forgiveness, of great beauty and awe."

KAREN KAY, whose great grandmother was a Choctaw Indian, is honored to be able to write about the American Indian culture.

"With the power of romance, I hope to bring about an awareness of the American Indian's concept of honor, and what it meant to them to live as free men and free women. There are some things that should never be...

Lakota Princess

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:48:31 +0200

Night Thunder's Bride: Blackfoot Warriors, Book 3

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:48:30 +0200

The Last Warrior

Thu, 20 Nov 2014 09:48:31 +0200

Their sweet harmony could tame the wrath of a god...or separate them forever.The Lost Clan, Book 4Black Lion was sent into the real world to break the curse that dooms his clan to a half life in the mists. Yet no matter how many times he has shown an enemy mercy, the Thunderer's spell remains intact.In his beseeching prayers, he hears a song that leads him to join Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show on its travels to London. There he encounters the daughter of two opera singers—the most beautiful woman he's ever seen. A woman already engaged to another man.Months later, Suzette Joselyn travels to America, a woman changed. Friendless, abandoned by her former fiancé—and pregnant—she finds it impossible to refuse the gentle Lakota Sioux's proposal to save her child from being born a bastard. Even if it means flashing a pistol to force a reluctant parson to marry them.Yet her brave new husband is consumed with a mission...

Black Eagle

Fri, 20 Nov 2015 09:38:43 +0200

A woman on the run...a warrior's vow...an assassin on their trail.The Warriors of the Iroquois, Book 1With the English and the French at each other's throats, struggling for control of the North American continent, the battle lines have been drawn. But Marisa Jameson is witness to treachery closer to home.After she overhears her uncle's plot to destroy a Dutch town for his own gain, she threatens to expose him—and is forced to run for her life.When the mesmerizing beauty says she needs a guide to visit a friend, Mohawk warrior Black Eagle volunteers. He knows the wild forests of New England like the back of his hand, but soon senses danger is dogging their heels and suspects there's more to Marisa's anxiety to move swiftly than her eagerness to "visit a friend".Caught in the crossfire of a war and with a deadly assassin hot on their trail, Marisa and Black Eagle discover that trusting each other is the only way to...

Proud Wolf's Woman

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:48:34 +0200

Lone Arrow's Pride

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:38:44 +0200

Buried treasure shines brightest in the dark...Legendary Warriors, Book 3Ten years after she survived a cholera epidemic that wiped out her entire wagon train, Carolyn White is on a quest to shake off the bad luck that follows her everywhere and which now threatens her adopted family. The unending string of mishaps can have only one source: the gold piece that she, in childish innocence and wonder, once took from a stolen cache.She tells herself her journey to Crow Country is merely to put the piece back in the cave where she found it. Yet in her heart, she knows it's the memory of Lone Arrow, the boy who sheltered her there. The boy whose face, now that of a man's, inhabits her dreams.Lone Arrow's anger knows no bounds. Anger with the white woman he suspects isn't being truthful to him. Anger with himself that he cannot ignore the beauty who captured his heart even as a boy. Though trust is in short supply, he can't deny his burning need for her....

War Cloud's Passion

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:48:29 +0200

A dangerous passion.Legendary Warriors, Book 2At twenty-three, Anna Wiley is lucky. The children aboard an orphan train headed west don't care that their nurse is too tall, too homely to be loved. They need her, and she will not rest until each one is placed in a loving home, including the last twelve bedraggled, rejected urchins clinging to her skirts.When their train is attacked by a band of warriors bent on rescuing a kidnapped Indian boy, she doesn't think twice about protecting the children—all the children, including the boy. Except keeping her charges safe means she must trust the formidable warrior who led the attack.War Cloud plans to get the strong-willed white woman and her gaggle of children off his hands as soon as possible. Yet as he guides them toward civilization, he realizes there is beauty beneath Anna's ill-fitting clothes, a strong spirit behind her sparkling green eyes.Even as passion grows, War Cloud prepares to...

Red Hawk's Woman

Thu, 20 Nov 2014 09:48:32 +0200

Their passion is thunder and lightning. Their fate could be a flood of sorrow.The Lost Clan, Book 3Red Hawk's most precious childhood memory is of a single morning with a girl whose beauty seemed lit from within with magic. Now, years later, she could very well hold the key to a centuries-old curse—but when his visions lead him to her again, no recognition lights her eyes.At age twenty-five, Effie Rutledge has missed her chance for marriage, but the daughter of a renowned archaeologist would rather get her hands dirty on a dig than cleaning up after some man. She is determined to finish her father's quest to recover four precious artifacts that could free a lost clan from a half life in the mists, but with her expedition reported as jinxed, there are no guides to be had. Except one tall, enigmatic native who draws her as naturally as water flows to the sea.Even when memories reconnect, they struggle to trust each...

The Angel and the Warrior

Thu, 20 Nov 2014 09:38:44 +0200

A hunted woman, a forbidden love...and time ticking down on an ancient curse. The Lost Clan, Book 1Eighteen years ago, Swift Hawk was sent to the earthly realm to try to break an enchantment that curses his clan to a half-life in the mists. As his allotted time runs short, a vision gives him a glimpse of his last chance to free his people. A delicate young woman with translucent white skin and star-like hair. He never thought his sacred vision would possess the tongue of a shrew. Angelia Honeywell and her brother Julian fled Mississippi amid a hail of rotten tomatoes and flying bullets. She only fired back in self-defense, but now they are on the run as their father pleads their case to the governor. With Julian trying to pass himself off as a wagon train scout, Angel knows they need help. When the handsome, black-eyed Swift Hawk agrees to save their skins, she can't help but be drawn to his compelling gaze. But as they...

Soaring Eagle's Embrace

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:38:45 +0200

Written in the stars...Legendary Warriors, Book 4Kali Wallace has no room in her busy life for marriage. Instead, she is following her father into a photography career, striving to capture the beauty of the Wild West and its vanishing Indian cultures before they both disappear forever.Montana's Blackfeet country is everything she could have dreamed—and more. At night a handsome man gently invades her sleep. Their nightly encounters become more and more real until one bright morning, she is startled to find everything has changed.Lawyer by profession, Blackfeet by blood, Clay Soaring Eagle is determined to do everything in his power—legally and spiritually—to save his people's way of life. He trusts no one of the white race, and hopes that once Kali's task is done, she will leave and take temptation with her.The spirits have their own plan. As their passion burns with a brightness that rivals the stars, Clay and Kali are aware that...

White Eagle's Touch: Blackfoot Warriors, Book 2

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:48:34 +0200

Lakota Surrender

Sun, 20 Nov 1994 09:48:30 +0200

Forbidden love...

Lakota, Book 1

As she heads west to join her cavalry officer father at his Kansas outpost, Kristina Bogard eagerly anticipates new adventures—and her first glimpse of wild Indians. She has long dreamed of flashing black eyes, skin-covered lodges and buckskin and leather. What she finds in Fort Leavenworth, though, is a far cry from her Indian nanny’s thrilling stories. What few natives are left are crushed, brokenhearted shadows of their proud past. Except for one, a handsome warrior who stirs up a whole new set of dreams. Tahiska can’t take his eyes off the green-eyed beauty whose graceful hands are fluent in his native sign language. Except he can’t afford to let anything distract him from avenging his father, who was killed by two white soldiers. Though anger fills his mind, Kristina steals into his heart, igniting a wildfire passion that must remain their desperate secret. For soon comes the day of reckoning, when justice will be served...or a travesty will shatter their love.

This book has been previously published.

Warning: Sensuous romance that could prompt you to send up smoke signals for the one you love.

The Princess and the Wolf

Sat, 20 Nov 2004 09:48:32 +0200

Warriors and trailblazers, the scouts of the great tribes were revered men of courage and honor--members of a noble society: The Clan of the WolfTwo Worlds, One HeartMarried by proxy to a European prince she doesn't love, the princess Sierra will not believe her husband died in far-off America--and crosses an ocean to discover the truth. But the determined royal lady will need a scout in this wild new land, and she must put her mission and her life in the hands of High Wolf, the proud Cheyenne brave she once loved with all her heart...and should rightly have wed.Years earlier High Wolf learned much as guest in a European court--until a woman's treachery sent him home with his spirit sore but unbroken. Now the regal beauty who deceived him has come to ask his help and his desire is enflamed anew. Honor demands that he lead the princess on her journey. But every moment in her company is rekindling a passion that must not be. And...