The Caregiver at Wounded Knee (Enduring Hope #4) by Debby Lee

 

Rose Rushing Water, an Oglala Sioux trained back East in nursing, is torn between two brothers—one who seeks to appease the government and one who fights to cling to the old ways at all costs.

Tribal policeman Nathaniel Gray Cloud struggles to keep peace on the reservation and support his sister, who is also desperate to hold on to family traditions.

Can Rose and Nathaniel find a peace that comes only from God, or will they lose their families and their lives as tensions reach a boiling point at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota? 

About The Author

 

Debby Lee, a member of the Yakama tribe, started writing as a child but never forgets home, the cozy town of Toledo, Washington, and her Native American roots.

A former president of the Olympia chapter of Romance Writers of America, Debby enjoys participating in both RWA and the American Christian Fiction Writers. Her full length title with Barbour Publishing is a 2024 Selah Awards Finalist. She also has six novella collections with Barbour. The Courageous Brides and Mountain Christmas Brides both made the ECPA Bestsellers list. She is represented by Tamela Hancock Murray of the Steven Laube Literary Agency.

A self-professed nature lover, Debby feels like a hippie child who wasn’t born early enough to attend Woodstock. She wishes she could run barefoot all year long and often does when weather permits. During football season, she cheers on the Seattle Seahawks with other devoted fans. She’s also filled with wanderlust and dreams of traveling the world. 

 

My Review

 This is an emotional read, and it wasn't long that I was walking in Rose Rushing Water's shoes. We are with her as she comes home as a nurse, she had been living in Boston, and now want to come back to her culture, more or less stolen from her.
We are with Rose when she goes to the Pine Ridge Reservation, and of course the famous events that take place there. So very sad.
There are facts here that I didn't remember, like changing the name of the tribe. Also the famous writer, who was very anti-native American.
The author drew me in with a young women that I soon cared about, we meet her brothers, and really worry about one of them. We follow her as she goes about helping the local doctor, and helping those in need.
She wants to dedicate her life to helping her people, can there their be room for some romance?
I found myself wanting to continue on in this book, even after the last page is turned.
I will be looking for more reads by Debby Lee!
I received this book through Net Galley and the Publisher Barbour, and was not required to give a positive review.

 

Hooked: A Thriller (Katrina & Goode Book 1) by Caitlin Rother

 

When investigative reporter Katrina Chopin and surfing homicide detective Ken Goode lock eyes, there’s an immediate attraction. Sparks fly as they bond over cocktails, sharing their common experiences of being orphans and losing loved ones to suicide.

But the next time they meet, it’s from opposing sides of a high-profile case. Two biotech execs, whose company is developing a groundbreaking sexual enhancement drug, turn up dead in the wealthy seaside enclave of La Jolla Farms, where Goode can readily see that the forensic evidence doesn’t add up.

As they work their own angles, sometimes together and sometimes at odds, their growing attraction threatens to cost them their jobs—and their lives. As Katrina and Goode pursue answers behind these mysterious events, a secret stalker taunts Katrina with details of her tragic past, which takes her to the brink of death. But once the duo rips the mask away from this beautiful paradise, the corrupt underbelly behind all that glitters is revealed.

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About The Author

 New York Times bestselling author Caitlin Rother has written or co-authored 14 books, ranging from narrative non-fiction crime to mystery and memoir. Her newest book is DEATH ON OCEAN BOULEVARD: Inside the Coronado Mansion Case (April 27, 2021). Her backlist includes HUNTING CHARLES MANSON; SECRETS, LIES, AND SHOELACES; LOVE GONE WRONG; DEAD RECKONING; THEN NO ONE CAN HAVE HER; I'LL TAKE CARE OF YOU; NAKED ADDICTION; POISONED LOVE; BODY PARTS; TWISTED TRIANGLE; LOST GIRLS; WHERE HOPE BEGINS and MY LIFE, DELETED. A Pulitzer Prize nominee, Rother worked as an investigative reporter at daily newspapers for 19 years before quitting the news biz in 2006 to write books full-time. Her journalism has been published in Cosmopolitan, the Los Angeles Times, The San Diego Union-Tribune, the Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and The Daily Beast. She has done more than 200 appearances as a crime commentator on TV, radio and podcasts, ranging from "20/20," "People Magazine Investigates," "Nancy Grace," and "Crime Watch Daily," to shows on HLN, Oxygen Network, Investigation Discovery, C-SPAN, XM Radio and PBS affiliates. She also works as a writing-research-promotions coach and consultant.

 

My Review

As I began this read there is a chance meeting between the two main characters, Katrina and Goode! A surfer stopping at a surfer bar, he was surfing in Hawaii, and Katrina is sitting at the bar, with sad losses between them.
What they don't know at the time of their meeting is that sure have a lot in common, but coming from different ways to solve a double murder.
We follow these two, sparks fly between them, but with him a Detective and her a reporter, can anything come from their attraction, with conflicts?
Rother offers us a bit of everything here, and she kept me guessing almost to the end as to whom the culprits were.
There are some really tense times here, and whom to trust, as my brain is screaming, "Don't go"!
Answers to come, and surprises along with the finding out a lot of answers, and the reasons why!
Now I am looking forward to the next book in this series that I am now really invested in!
I received this book through the Publisher Thomas & Mercer, and was not required to give a positive review.