Ok, I give this author gold stars for her obvious passion for Kentucky and for history. Her research is good. However, reading this, I cannot get into it as believability. I don't think Roxanna would just pick up and follow her father to his fort (and I think Frantz is sort of copying from The Last of the Mohicans with that one). Especially at the beginning of the book, the characters are stiff and very one dimensional. The conversations the two main characters have, are so convenient and formal. I get so tired of this formal, make believe talk--the scenes aren't written with ease. Her research is good, and some bits of this story have glimmers of intenseness that make one keep reading. But then in the end, it leaves me disappointed.
I did think the end with the battle was well done and interesting, aside from the multiple annoying 'No's to marriage' Roxie keeps saying to Cass. And then out of the blue she finally says yes. Not cool. The rejection was getting old. So were the reasonings of her character half the time.