Rose - Softcover

With her first novel, Sunflower, Jill Marie Landis won the Romance Writers of America's "Golden Medallion Award for Best Historical Romance." Her novels Wildflower, Rose, and Jade confirmed the promise of her unique talent for rich detail and characterization. Come Spring, winner of the "Best Romance Novel of the Year" award, was hailed by such celebrated authors as Julie Garwood and Linda Lael Miller, while Past Promises earned the praises of Amanda Quick. Her most recent novels include Until Tomorrow, After All, Last Chance, and Day Dreamer.

Stock characters and the faltering of its antiracist stance help to keep this western/romance about an Italian woman and a half-Sioux man firmly in the ranks of the ordinary. In 1887, Rosa Audi journeys from her Italian village to Busted Heel, Wyo., to find that she is now a widow: her husband, who had emigrated first to make a home for her, has been killed recently by stray gunfire. Kase Storm, the half Sioux-half Dutch town marshal, decides this is no place for a beautiful, unprotected woman and sends her packing. However, encouraged by the town's stereotypically kind-hearted madam, Rosa stays to establish a restaurant. As Kase struggles to reconcile himself to the past he has fled, he resists his growing attraction to Rosa, unwilling to have her subjected to the racist slurs he suffers as a "half-breed." But Rosa, who proves her mettle by surviving on her own and winning the hearts of the townspeople, refuses to be swayed by such prejudice. Curiously, Landis's ( Wildflower ) antiracism finally turns selective: when outlaws take a train (and Rosa) hostage, all the men turn out to help--except the town's one Chinese.
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