Railroad heiress Kate Parsons has spent a lifetime trying to win her father’s respect. Her heart isn’t in the marriage he demands for her, but she is eager to help him resolve a land dispute between his railroad and the Cherokee Nation.

Jake Colston–also known as Wa-ya, the Wolf–has the blood of warriors running through his veins, but he isn’t eager to wage a war he knows his people can’t win. Rather than fight the smoking dragon, he devises a clever strategy to stop it. When Kate stumbles onto his scheme, a split-second decision to save her life hurls his plans into chaos and creates havoc in his heart.

Is the woman he nicknames Redbird the incarnation of a long-ago vision? Or does she portend the end of his dreams?

Bestselling author E.E. Burke weaves a captivating, cross-cultural love story into a tapestry of historical events surrounding a tense standoff between the Cherokee Nation and the Katy Railroad. Originally released as a novella under the title Kate’s Outlaw, this new edition has been expanded into a novel with exciting new scenes and renamed after the Native American legend that inspired it. Scroll up and start reading today.