After rising pop star Avery Fox gets cancelled for her culturally insensitive use of Native American imagery, her mom/manager sends her off to the Muscogee reservation in Oklahoma to learn about her heritage at her estranged grandmother's house, where she can also conveniently avoid the paparazzi. Avery's definitely interested in meeting her grandmother, who she's never met and her mother never talks about, but she certainly isn't prepared for life on the reservation or working hard at her grandmother's horse ranch. She also isn't prepared for Lucas, the ridiculously hot and aloof ranch hand who seems to hate her from the moment he picks her up at the airport.
While this book is filled with plenty of the traditional romance tropes, its setting in a Native American community and discussion of ignorance and cultural insensitivity is fresh. That said, I can't say I totally loved the book — I have plenty of quibbles with the way things played out toward the end of the book, and I'm sure there are better ways to handle the PR nightmare that spurs the storyline. But it is a fresh backdrop, and I'll definitely be checking out more of Nava's books.
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