Ann McGrath’s new book Illicit Love: Interracial Sex and Marriage in the United States and Australia (University of Nebraska Press) is a history of love, sex, and marriage between Indigenous peoples and settler citizens at the heart of two settler colonial nations, the United States and Australia which illuminates interracial relationships from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century through stories of romance, courtship, and marriage between Indigenous peoples and colonizers in times of nation formation.