I can't seem to come up with words to express how much I loved this story. Logan and Mike are changed men after having served together in WWII, Logan as a Code Talker and Mike as a Seabee assigned to Logan's unit. The majority of the story takes place in 1947 when Mike travels to the reservation to visit with Logan. They rekindle a fire they had only glimpsed during the war, and though there is a very interesting mystery and lots of secondary characters that enrich the story, this is at heart a love story.

Let me just say that I found this story very moving, with a great deal of heart. Highly recommend. ( )

There are many things to love in this novel, first of all the fact this is an more than happily ever after love story: when the story starts the two main heroes are two old men living together in a Navajo reserve in 2008 and the reader is brought back with them to the winter of 1947, when they chose, for various reasons, to live together.

Mike and Logan were both soldiers during the IIWW. Logan, a Navajo Native American, was part of a special team with other two Native Americans from his own reserve. Mike was the son of the owner of the mines who now wants to open a mine inside the Navajo reserve. There is a murder and there are investigations and there is an unexpected culprit, but mainly this is a wonderful love story.

As many soldiers Mike came back from was not the same man he was before. He is drinking too much, regretting too much, and basically he is unable to live in peace after everything he saw. The only mainstay he seems to have is Logan, the fellow soldier he shared everything during the war, not only a tent. What he had with Logan was beautiful but he thought was supposed to end with the end of the war. That is probably yet another reason why Mike is unable to continue with his previous life, Logan was not only another live body with whom he could scare off the death he was seeing day after day.

Logan is now living inside the Reserve; like Mike he couldn’t go back to his life and he basically divorced from his wife (meaning he simply left their home to go living in the mountain). When Mike comes to him searching for something he doesn’t know, Logan knows, and he opens his arms. Living together alone in the mountains allow to these two men to not worry about what society will think; the Navajos are more worried about Mike being white that about him being a man loving another man, they are Two-Spirits and for the Native Americans that is an asset not something to hide.

This is a wonderful love story but it’s not an erotic romance; the love between the two men is plenty and clear, but the story has a bittersweet taste, exactly as it should be: two men remembering their past life together, a life that was long and beautiful, since they were together, but also peppered of tragic events and sad memories.

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