I enjoyed this book due to the fact that it gave me a different perspective about the Trail of Tears. It is also very informative in the context of fiction. It is a fictional book, but, according to the author's note, '...the background against which they appear is fact. All incidents and events in this novel relating to the court battles of the Cherokee Nation, the harassment by the Georgia Guard, the Cherokees' valiant efforts to peacefully resist removal for eight long years, and the split within the Cherokee Nation between the supporters of the principal chief and treaty advocates for removal are true. ...the descriptions of the detention camps, the long trail of tragedy and suffering, and the ruinous destruction that occurred in the Cherokee Nation during the Civil War.

The relationships and romance of the story add to its interest.

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As with "Legacies" (the second book in this series), the background takes precedence over plot or characterization.

The story centers around the Cherokee Removal, when governmental policies abrogated the treaty that had established a Cherokee Nation inpresent-day Georgia, and subsequently forced its inhabitants to emigrate to Oklahoma in a brutal on-foot journey.

This didn't happen overnight, and Dailey's background is well done indeed for anyone who wants to know more about the event.

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Some great history of fictious people losing everything and enduring the Trail Of Tears and how they get through it all. I have learned alot reading this book and I could not put it down.

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An interesting read.

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Abridged/4 cassettes/Approx 6 hours.

From a New York Times best-selling author comes a passionate love story set during the Cherokee Nation's tumultuous struggle for justice in the early 1830s. Temple Gordon, the daughter of an educated Cherokee leader, was raised on her mother's family plantation. She is fiercely devoted to the Cherokee traditions, while her lover, Blade Stuart, is a visionary committed to a new future for the tribe. Their romance and the survival of the Cherokee Nation itself are soon tested by government pressure to surrender tribal territory and move west. In nearly losing everything she loves most, Temple discovers an inner strength she never knew she had.

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