Winter Heart is the third book in Jane Bonander's series Blazing Frontier. It begins in a mental institution with Dinah Odell, a young woman whose evil uncle commits Dinah so that he has control of her inheritance. Desperate to escape her will do anything including risking her freedom by posing as a nurse and accepting a job to care for Tristan Fletcher's mentally fragile sister. She thinks she's prepared for anything, except the sensitive, generous, and mysterious man behind the facade that Tristan Fletcher presents to the world. With a dark past of his own, Tristan survived the barbs of childhood by closing his heart off from the rest of the world. He sees something similar in Dinah, a desire to flee, and it sparks his desire to protect her. To marry her.I really enjoyed this book. The author does touch on some gruesome accounts of how women were institutionalized in the late 1800/ early 1900. The sensual level I would put as a six. I strongly recommend this romance novel.
Dinah is placed in Trenway an asylum by her uncle. He wants control of the money Dinah's father left in his will. Her uncle only has control as long as Dinah lives otherwise it is destined to the university and not to the uncle. But thanks to Daisy, a nurse at Trenway, she helps Dinah to escape and take her place at a position in California. There Dinah is confronted by Tristan Fletcher, the owner of the ranch and Emily's brother who will will be Dinah's responsibility. So Dinah must keep it a secret about her true identity to hide from her uncle. But Tristan is intrigued by Dinah and knows that she is hiding something.
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This book was rather unique. The mental health misuse in history was very well done and I feel there was a great balance though it was difficult to read in places for myself. My only issue with this book is there seemed to be some continuity problems here and there that I came across, slowing me down and occasionally confusing me enough to double check page numbers quickly. Nothing that was crucial or difficult to get around though so the interesting story still outranked the problems I ran in to.
—Katie
