Fire Dancer

HER ARTISTIC SPIRIT

Lady Mackenzie Daniels is a portrait painter with a wild spirit and arrives in the American frontier west to paint portraits of English officers at Fort Belvadere. There she meets Fire Dancer. A red man. A savage. The most glorious man she has ever laid eyes on. She dares to paint Fire Dancer’s portrait against his wishes and scandalously meets him at a cool brook nearby...

**HIS PROUD BEARING

Fire Dancer, Prince of the Shawnee Nation, is at Fort Belvadere to negotiate peace with the King’s Army during the French and Indian War. He has never met a portrait artist, let alone a white woman like Mackenzie, and now a war rages within him. He forbade her to paint his portrait, lest she steal his soul. But he cannot stop her from stealing his heart.

When a King’s soldier is murdered outside the Fort, Fire Dancer is imprisoned and beaten. After Mackenzie reveals she was with Fire Dancer at the time of the murder, she is locked in her room.

THEIR FIERY PASSION

Fire Dancer escapes and goes to say goodbye to Mackenzie. “Let this man in,” he whispers. “There is not much time, woman of my heart.”

Mackenzie watches as Fire Dancer comes in through the window. “What have they done to you?”

“Shhh, it is nothing,” he murmurs. “We must speak softly.”

“Fire Dancer,” Mackenzie whispers. She kisses him softly on the mouth.

“This man will never forget you.” He kisses her back, harder, and pulls her closer.**