White Fire

In her latest, Edwards (Savage Bliss, etc.) stretches credibility like so much salt-water taffy. Sadly, her usual believable characters are unconvincing, and the Native American mystique is represented by a pipe-smoking specter. As the half-breed son of a respected army colonel, White Fire had been sheltered in the white man's world, but with the death of his esteemed father, his situationl changes. At the funeral, he shares glances with the most beautiful girl he has ever seen, a red-haired youngster, who happens to be the daughter of the new post commander. White Fire leaves but even years later ""Flame"" never forgets him. After the death of her mother, Flame's father summons her to the fort he now commands in Minnesota and, in his office, she encounters none other than White Fire. He's just been rescued after three years of captivity with an enemy tribe; his wife is dead and his son has been given up for adoption. What luck. Readers know the glowing embers of passion will have to be fanned to a white-hot flame and all that, but most will be hard put to say why. (June)