Out of Ashes of Love
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Prologue 1978 - Idaho As the sun sank slowly behind a ridge of mountains, a young Indian warrior of eighteen summers and his prized spotted stallion lay side by side in an Autumn field. The stallion was dead from a bullet through the brain. The warrior might well have been dead himself, for he stirred not, and his life's blood stained the prairie grass. Yet his heart continued to beat despite his bruised and beaten body, as well as the mass of bloody flesh his back had become when laid open by a cruel whip. His enemies had surprised him with their abrupt arrival, their hatred, and their brutality. Just that very day, the warrior had made a vow to love, forever, the fair-skinned woman who possessed his heart―the woman claimed without reason by the one who'd held the whip. Now, with but one sunrise between he and his beloved, the warrior had been beaten, warned, and told to stay away. To make sure that he'd listen, his enemy had threatened the same for the very woman the warrior loved. The circumstances being what they were even in this mid-twentieth century, there was no doubt his enemy had all the advantages. Through the haze of pain that nearly consumed him, the warrior concluded the only way to keep his vow of love was to do as he'd been told. He was to leave the woman of his heart, his Morning Light, and live with the great sorrow of her loss for the remainder of his days.
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Born of a Nez Perce mother and a white father in the second half of the twentieth century, Phoenix Stargazer has always struggled to find his place in two worlds. Called a half-breed by many, Phoenix is struggling to find his place in humankind when he falls in love with a white woman who sees past his mixed heritage and his anger to offer him her love and her God. Aerielle Buchanan, having delved past the wall Phoenix has built, has fallen in love. Yet without warning, Phoenix is torn from her life, and the two are left to live their own lives apart from each other. What will happen in 14 years when God reunites them? Bound by love and faith, but torn apart by time and circumstance, will their reunion be enough to bring them back together? Are they truly destined for each other, or was what they had only an illusion from their youth?
About the Author
Chy Anne Autumn Osborn has been reading and writing romance novels since her youth, and in fact, began writing her first novel at the age of 15, only one year after an encounter with God. Her relationship with Christ and her love of romance joined together in her writing, and each of her books are based on a different scripture. Once having been accused of having her writing sound like Jane Austin, as if that were a bad thing, Chy Anne took it as a compliment. As she puts it in her own words, “I write contemporary books with the voice of historical romance novels. Jane Austin? Maybe not. But I have a voice of my own nonetheless.”