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Violence
Some
Post-Civil War frontier violence — the hero's violent past and the world's general danger are present
Language
Barely any
Period-appropriate language
Sexual Content
Some
Sexual content is closed-door
Substance Use
Barely any
Drinking in frontier settings
Emotional Intensity
Some
The emotional stakes of two damaged people choosing to trust each other create warm depth
What this book is about
Set in the post-Civil War American West, a woman of mixed race who has survived extraordinary hardship finds herself in the company of a man with a violent past who is trying to choose a different path. O'Connell's self-published historical Western romance continues her exploration of the frontier's racial and social complexities.
Notes for sensitive readers
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Period-accurate racial dynamics in the post-Civil War West
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