Wild Flower

by Cheryl Anne Porter

Book Overview

The child of a Cherokee mother and a white father, Taylor Christie James escapes from prison before she can be hanged for a murder she did not commit and heads for St. Louis to find her father and learn the truth about her past.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312977166
• ISBN13: 9780312977160
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

Oh my!

A Cherokee maiden, Taylor Christie James, was accused of a murder she did not commit and sentenced to hang. Only hours before her execution time she escaped. Her mother sent her to St. Louis to find her white father. In the White world Cherokee law was not upheld. She would be free. However, she could never return to the land she loved.Grey Talbott halted Taylor's entrance to the James household. It was impossible for her to be the person in which she claimed! So he forced her away, by gun point, before she could ruin the lives of those he cared for. He took her to his home, determined to find out who the buckskin clad lady really was and why she had come.Taylor and her father, Charles James, had each been told lies from an unknown source. Charles, along with Amanda (Taylor's cousin), had thought Taylor died several years ago. Taylor had thought her father never cared for his Indian daughter and that Amanda had died years ago. All were shocked!Taylor was about to be confronted on all sides. Her whole life was a lie and someone wanted her dead! She could trust no one except Grey, the man she grew to love and could never have a life with.** This is one of the best books I've read! Cheryl Anne Porter has a new fan in me! Highly recommended!

Drop everything and read this book!

A Cherokee maiden, Taylor Christie James, was accused of a murder she did not commit and sentenced to hang. Only hours before her execution time she escaped. Her mother sent her to St. Louis to find her white father. In the White world Cherokee law was not upheld. She would be free. However, she could never return to the land she loved. Grey Talbott halted Taylor's entrance to the James household. It was impossible for her to be the person in which she claimed! So he forced her away, by gun point, before she could ruin the lives of those he cared for. He took her to his home, determined to find out who the buckskin clad lady really was and why she had come. Taylor and her father, Charles James, had each been told lies from an unknown source. Charles, along with Amanda (Taylor's cousin), had thought Taylor died several years ago. Taylor had thought her father never cared for his Indian daughter and that Amanda had died years ago. All were shocked! Taylor was about to be confronted on all sides. Her whole life was a lie and someone wanted her dead! She could trust no one except Grey, the man she grew to love and could never have a life with. ***** This is one of the best books I've read! Cheryl Anne Porter has a new fan in me! Highly recommended!

Exciting romances with mystery elements.

In 1876, her uncle breaks Taylor Christie James out of the Cherokee Nation National Penitentiary where the tribe was going to hang a woman for the first time because she killed a man. Taylor learns that her uncle killed her lover, who actually was the murderer, and that she must flee her nation to live with her white father Charles in St. Louis. Taylor hates Charles, who deserted her and her mother when she was nine.Before encountering her father, his friend Greyson Talbott intercepts Taylor at Charles' doorsteps. Greyson knows that his friend believes his beloved daughter is dead. He forces her to go to his home until he can straighten out this mess that could destroy the mayoral ambitions of his brother, engaged to Charles' niece. As Greyson and Taylor become acquainted, they fall in love. However, a relative of either Taylor or Charles wants the "sin" either to leave town now or die.Award-winning novelist Cheryl Ann Porter demonstrates why she is a fan favorite when it comes to exciting romances with mystery elements. Her current historical tale, WILDFIRE, is a well-written novel with solid lead characters although a couple of flaws in the who-done-it subplot hurt the story line. The insight into the Cherokee Nation one-decade after the Civil War is enlightening, cleverly interwoven into the main theme, and propels the plot forward. Americana romance readers will enjoy this action-packed tale with an entertaining cast who brings St. Louis to life twenty-five years before readers meet Judy Garland on the trolley.Harriet Klausner