Synopsis:

Holly's ex-husband is stalking her. Out of nowhere on a stormy night, help arrives in the form of a powerful, primitively beautiful Native American who tosses her ex-husband off her property. Is Bear her knight in shining armor? Or, in this case, her warrior in scanty breechclout? Can this pinup guy actually be a man she can trust?

Pulled through time, Bear joins the other Yahi warrior, Lone Wolf, who came before him — his only link to the past, his only guide to the future.

The Great Spirit has a mission for these warriors and he's not above a little matchmaking when he drops Bear in Holly's yard. Patience is bred into a Yahi warrior and Bear will need it to claim his woman…especially when she discovers his secret.
 

SRR GRADE:  A-
 

Holly Kincaid’s ex-husband, abusive during the marriage he has now resorted to stalking. Thirty days away from losing the family ranch to foreclosure, she’s at her wits end. Bear Claw, a Yahi warrior from the 1800s is dragging his fatally wounded friend Lone Wolf to safety when he is hit over the head with a rifle. An electrical storm brings them together, but will her financial problems and his distrust of whites allow them to find happiness?

Warrior of the Past is a book that sits the traditional Time-Travel genre on its ear. Where usually the woman is sent back in time, this time the hero comes forward. Unprepared for the modern era, Bear Claw’s values are exactly what is needed by Holly. There are elements that I would have, as a reader, liked to see more fleshed out, but then in reading if the hero or heroine is presented with a problem, I like to know how they got there. Bear Claw’s broken English can be jolting, but understandable in the character.  Holly is presented not as weak, which would be easy to do with an abused woman, but instead a woman trying to crawl out of the fear that controlled her life for so long. This is definitely a story about the accepting property of love and the sex ain’t bad either.