I’m ashamed I’ve collected, but haven’t completed, the In Me trilogy by Kathleen O’Neal Gear. If you’re not familiar with Gear, she and her husband, W. Michael Gear, co-authored fiction and non-fiction books surrounding Native American history. Or, to be specific, the First North Americans. Which is the title of the couple’s most popular and long-running historical fiction series. On occasion the two step out and write books alone, and this is where the In Me trilogy came from Kathleen. It’s a trilogy that has always caught my eye, while shelving them on bookstores. However, it would be years later when I spent a night fighting a tipsy disposition before I actually finished the first book. Yet, I'm sad to say, the following two books hibernated on my shelf thereafter. I simply never made it back. And I say so despite really enjoying the first book. I guess it was a situation of never wanting to spoil a debut's magic.
Nevertheless, the series is about a young High Chieftess name Sora. She’s the head of a Native American tribe called the Black Falcon Nation. Sora, described as extraordinarily beautiful and desirable, was married to a warrior named Flint. Flint was a warrior who would kill men with even the slightest glance toward his wife. So with a possessive and territorial rage uncontrolled, Flint divorces Sora and moves back to his original clan.