Breathless (Old West, #2)

by Beverly Jenkins

wonder what we Americans would do if somebody with bigger guns invaded us and started stealing our land and killing our kin.

For the past thirty years the Apache had been doing their best to retake the land their people had lived on for as long as they could remember. Portia couldn’t condone the killing and raiding they’d been doing in retaliation, but because the government had broken treaty after treaty, the old chiefs like Geronimo and Cochise felt they had no other choice.

“She began life as a Dutch slave. English is not her first language, but to hear the movement’s leaders tell it, she speaks like an unschooled Deep South slave. And why they refuse to allow Colored women in their ranks says a lot about who they are. Especially Elizabeth Cady Stanton. This phrase they’re beginning to use—intelligent suffrage—is designed to leave women of our race on the side of the road. As if they’re the only ones with enough smarts to read a ballot.”

Although there were only five children enrolled, every educated child was an asset to the race.

Whatever I can do to make you happy makes me happy as well.”

“Love is also patient,” he added quietly. “Love is kind. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. Love never ends.”