Love Is a War Song
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4.3 • 3 Ratings
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Publisher Description
AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER ∙ THREADS SUMMER BOOK CLUB PICK ∙ AN AMAZON EDITOR'S PICK FOR ROMANCE ∙ AN ELLE BEST ROMANCE OF THE YEAR!
A Muscogee pop star and a cowboy who couldn’t be more different come together to strike a deal in this new romantic comedy by Danica Nava, USA Today bestselling author of The Truth According to Ember.
Pop singer Avery Fox has become a national joke after posing scantily clad on the cover of Rolling Stone in a feather warbonnet. What was meant to be a statement of her success as a Native American singer has turned her into a social pariah and dubbed her a fake. With threats coming from every direction and her career at a standstill, she escapes to her estranged grandmother Lottie’s ranch in Oklahoma. Living on the rez is new to Avery—not only does she have to work in the blazing summer heat to earn her keep, but the man who runs Lottie’s horse ranch despises her and wants her gone.
Red Fox Ranch has been home to Lucas Iron Eyes since he was sixteen years old. He has lived by three rules to keep himself out of trouble: 1) preserve the culture, 2) respect the horses, and 3) stick to himself. When he is tasked with picking up Lottie’s granddaughter at the bus station, the last person he expected to see is the Avery Fox. Lucas can’t stand what she represents, but when he’s forced to work with her on the ranch, he can’t get her out of his sight—or his head. He reminds himself to keep to his rules, especially after he finds out the ranch is under threat of being shut down.
It’s clear Avery doesn’t belong here, but they form a tentative truce and make a deal: Avery will help raise funds to save the ranch, and in exchange, Lucas will show her what it really means to be an Indian. It’s purely transactional, absolutely no horsing around…but where’s the fun in that?
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Nava (The Truth According to Ember) pairs a disgraced Native American pop star with a hardworking ranchhand in her appealing sophomore rom-com. Muscogee rising star Avery Fox has been acting and singing since she was a baby, urged on by her mother and manager, Harriett. Now she's hit it big, albeit with a song she feels no connection to. After an ill-advised Rolling Stone cover featuring her in a war bonnet and little else, the internet turns on her, going so far as to accuse her of faking her Native heritage and even sending credible death threats. As damage control, Harriett ships Avery off to her own childhood home of Broken Arrow, Okla., to stay with the estranged grandmother Avery has never known. There, Avery meets and falls for gorgeous Lucas Iron Eyes, who works on her grandmother's ranch. The chemistry between them crackles—and only intensifies after an awkward dinner with Lucas's protective parents reveals that they share similar familial struggles. But once the internet firestorm dies down, Avery has a celebrity life to get back to, while Lucas's home is on the ranch. Nava approaches her protagonists' differing relationships to their shared culture with empathy and skill and has a talent for making even the prickliest characters, like Avery's mother, redeemable. The result is a nuanced and entertaining rom-com with plenty of heart.
