REBEL

Author: Zöe Archer ISBN: 9781420106817 11/2010 PARANORMAL Publisher: KENSINGTON

On the Canadian frontier in 1875, nature is a harsh mistress. But the supernatural can really do you in… A Lone Wolf Nathan Lesperance is used to being different. He’s the first Native attorney in Vancouver, and welcome neither with white society nor his sometime tribe. Not to mention the powerful wildness he’s always felt inside him, too dangerous to set free. Then he met Astrid Bramfield and saw his like within her piercing eyes. Now, unless she helps him through the harsh terrain and the harsher unknowns of his true abilities, it could very well get him killed… And The Woman Who Left The Pack Astrid has traveled this path before. Once she was a Blade of the Rose, protecting the world’s magic from unscrupulous men, with her husband by her side. But she’s loved and lost, and as a world-class frontierswoman, she knows all about survival. Nathan’s searing gaze and long, lean muscles mean nothing but trouble. Yet something has ignited a forgotten flame inside her: a burning need for adventure, for life—and perhaps even for love…

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

REBEL is the third of four in the Blades of the Rose series, and what a heck of a romantic action adventure novel it is! Set in 1875 in the Northwest Territory, it is a cold, danger-filled trek through the wilderness that fills a reader’s senses with chills and thrills.

Nathan Lesperance is a Native American torn away from his family and educated by the American school system. Brilliant, he becomes a lawyer fighting against injustice for underrepresented minorities, but is always an outsider. When he goes to Canada for a case, he meets widow Astrid Bramfield, a Blade of the Rose who has been living rough for four years, ever since the Heirs murdered her husband.

Now, the Heirs’ mission to control the world through magic on behalf of the British Empire has moved in Astrid’s direction once again. Nathan is pulled into the action along with Astrid, since it turns out he has heavy involvement in the magic in this part of the world.
REBEL sucks you in from page one. Heroic characters, magic and action, plus hot romance. If any of these things make your heart beat faster, you’ll love REBEL!

Heather Hiestand