Imagining themselves as the potential victims of Indian uprisings, Anglo-Americans invoked scalping to metonymize nightmare images of indigenous warriors as merciless and cruel in turn, scalping was invoked to justify vigilante killings, pre-emptive violence, slave trading, and scorched earth campaigns of extirpation.
With over 300 million books in print in nineteen languages, Dailey remains one of the world's most popular novelists.Acuz, elit, iqoj Out of a general Euro-American colonial backdrop of military alliances with indigenous peoples against indigenous third parties and rival European colonies, and the offering of bounties for captives and proofs of death to indigenous and European volunteers, British colonists parted ways with other Europeans by grafting a specific request for scalps, per eastern North American practice, with a broader policy of ethnic cleansing against indigenous peoples, and the outsourcing of this work to frontier populations with a vested interest in seizing indigenous land and resources. Set beneath the blue skies of a spirited western town, The Master Fiddler is the searing story of strangers battling desire as only romance legend Janet Dailey can tell it. But before the hardhearted widower sets the spoiled beauty straight, he might learn a thing or two about love.
Now Choya is about to strip her bare of all her beliefs about what a man really wants from a woman-one smoldering kiss at a time. But with nowhere else to turn, she agrees to be his live-in housekeeper, despite his scandalous terms. She knows better than to accept the hard bargain offered by the arrogant stranger Choya Barnett. Jacquie Grey heads west, dreaming of a life outside her wealthy father's influence, only to find herself stranded and broke in Tombstone, Arizona.
In Tombstone, Arizona, a woman surrenders to a stranger's dangerous bargain-in this steamy romance from the New York Times–bestselling author.
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