1879 and Shiloh Wainwright, 21 years of age, has grown into a beautiful and independent women. Nine years before, her relationship with her sister Jordan, never good, worsened to near hatred when Jordan who had enticed their half-breed Indian worker, Jesse, into a barn, lied about what had happened there and did nothing to prevent his cruel flogging. All these years later Shiloh’s memory of Jesse has grown into love which she knows cannot be. Now a qualified teacher, she has chosen to travel to the White River territory of the Ute Indians, to teach their children. She had learnt their language, culture and traditions from her Ute nursemaid all those years ago, and felt called to serve them. As you would expect in a historical romantic novel she meets up with Jesse and that is where the tale really takes off. I learnt a lot about the attitudes of ordinary people towards the original inhabitants of their land, how the Indians lived and thought, how change was being forced upon them with heart-rending results. The story goes through many twists and turns before the happy ending you would expect. It kept me enthralled to the last page.