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December 14, 2012
Author Posts Happy Story to Inspire Native Kids to Write!
This is a happy start to LIMITLESS HAPPY STORIES from young men and women, boys and girls, whose heritage is traced through the countless nations that lived on this land well before Europeans. Essentially, I did it – so can you! Here’s my HAPPY STORY!
Many years ago I began crafting a novel reflective of the Cherokee Nation set during the founding of the United States. It’s titled, Cherokee Talisman. In part, I wrote it because I had heard my father speak reverently of the Tuscarora Nation, a people that were once neighbors of the Cherokee and eventually the last tribe to move north and join the Iroquois Confederacy in New York (were my father’s family was from). The scene is 50 years prior to the infamous ‘Trail of Tears’, and touches on many historical people within the Nation and their roles as they watched a nation form around them and strangle their own.
Within the book, there are the stories of two young boys and their struggles to grow, mature, and prosper during a very difficult time. As the novel covers a generation, you’ll see that one boy is the son of the other we watched grow up early in the work. This is important as it shows us that while the struggle may change, the struggle remains. No one is promising it will go away, because the truth is, it won’t. And yet, it changes – what was difficult for the father as a young man is not difficult for his son, but new challenges have risen up to take its place.
Let’s fast forward 200 years and look at this under the bright light of 2012 and beyond. The hard times my father endured, growing up on a poor farm during the height of the Great Depression, were nothing like what I saw as a boy, but the 1960’s and ‘70s were still turbulent and forced new challenges on me. Still, things are relative to where YOU are – not someone else, in another time and another place. YOUR challenges are the worst! No one has it as bad as you! I thought that way too. Then my children came along and came of age just as computers and the internet flooded schools. Now they’ve endured, survived, and flourished. It’s your turn! You too will endure, but beyond just enduring, you will THRIVE! Let’s go back to the novel and see why.
To see the future, look to the past. Ideas, technology, pressures, and obstacles change as the calendar flips away the years. But we endure and, as I said, we thrive. You will too, even though right now it may not feel that way. My challenge to young men and women, boys and girls, who carry the regal blood of the men and women like those depicted in Cherokee Talisman is to pick up a pen. Not literally – we don’t do that much anymore. But close out of the internet for a while. Instead open MS Word. See that big blank page? Fill it.
Not sure where to begin? Start close to home. Interview your parents and your grandparents. What were their childhoods like? What were their challenges? Their pressures? What can they share about being born with regal blood? A little? A lot? Whatever they can give becomes the corner stone of that blank page.
Now research your history, your tribe, your native nation. What you learn is now the foundation for that page. Where you go will be based on historical accuracy – FACT – not “Hollywood fact”, but the real deal – not always fun and spectacular, and often harsh and cruel, but the facts just the same.
Ok, the homework part is over. Let’s shift into high-imagination-gear! Take what you now know and give your story a name and a face – a name and face of a character or a number of characters. Be descriptive. Your readers need to know what they look like, sound like, act like, smell like! Not just “tall”, how tall? Taller than this… shorter than that. Not just “quiet”, “pretty”, “happy”, “sad”, “loud”, “angry”, but ask yourself, “How happy?” And most importantly for a good story ask yourself, “Why?” “Why happy?” “Why sad?” The ‘why’ is where you take over. Only YOU can direct your story and your characters. Your characters will do what you write (trust me on this one). Use your own experiences to help move them through the story.
Use colors. “Paint words.” This gives words an emotion. It is a trick I use often. I have a blue angry (so mad on the outside because the character is sad or disappointed on the inside). I have a purple angry (he or she is hurting – bruised – and strikes out) and there’s the red angry (you can figure that one out!). Close your eyes and think of the word ‘ANGRY’. Paint the word blue. Paint it purple. Paint it red. Try a different color. Feel a change? See how it works? Now here’s where it gets tougher – take that change and describe it. Fill in all the blank spaces around that change with words – describing, showing words.
Your readers can read that page of yours, but they can’t read your mind! Help them out. Don’t just TELL a story, SHOW a story!
Here’s a very important lesson for young authors. Try to remember the first time you did ANYTHING. Tried a cartwheel. Tried to swim. Algebra. Punted a football. Uploaded to Youtube. Rode a bike. Drove a car? Used a new cellphone. The list is endless.
It’s ok to admit it – you weren’t very good. Me either.
After a lot of practice, we got better. Writing is like that. You get better. Words come easier. Stories jump off the page! I tell people that writing is like a muscle – the more you work it, the stronger it gets.
So start. Lay a cornerstone. Discover your foundation. Create characters. Show your readers how & why.
My HAPPY STORY is that I wrote Cherokee Talisman. I can pick up the book with a sense of satisfaction and pride, not just in having told an entertaining story, but doing it in a way that reflects honestly on native culture so someone else can know the future by knowing the past.
Write your own HAPPY STORY. Do it for others who don’t know your story, but want to or need to. The story itself may not always be happy. That’s ok. Cherokee Talisman is that way. But the result becomes its own HAPPY STORY. Native heritage is special. It’s so very unique. Don’t let those stories of yours go untold. Only YOU can show YOUR stories. If you don’t do it, it won’t get done. Pick up your pen!
ABOUT 1 Billion Happy Native Stories
The word “Native” includes people, plants and animals and is synonymous with the following: Indigenous, Aboriginal, original and innate.
Partners of the Heart is a web based and interactive company where people pay a minimum of $1 to share a positive story that will be digitally archived forever. The reason people pay for these stories is because our clients who are non profits receive a minimum of 25% of the $1 story and those funds are filtered directly back into the charitable organization. Charities have had a hard time reaching their audience digitally and this gives them an outlet and an additional way to finance or capitalize their charity.
Go to http://billionnatives.com/ to create your own Happy Native Story!
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Author Posts “Happy Profile” to Inspire Native Kids to Write!
This is a happy start to LIMITLESS HAPPY STORIES from young men and women, boys and girls, whose heritage is traced through the countless nations that lived on this land well before Europeans. Essentially, I did it – so can you! Here’s my HAPPY STORY!
Many years ago I began crafting a novel reflective of the Cherokee Nation set during the founding of the United States. It’s titled, Cherokee Talisman. In part, I wrote it because I had heard my father speak reverently of the Tuscarora Nation, a people that were once neighbors of the Cherokee and eventually the last tribe to move north and join the Iroquois Confederacy in New York (were my father’s family was from). The scene is 50 years prior to the infamous ‘Trail of Tears’, and touches on many historical people within the Nation and their roles as they watched a nation form around them and strangle their own.
Within the book, there are the stories of two young boys and their struggles to grow, mature, and prosper during a very difficult time. As the novel covers a generation, you’ll see that one boy is the son of the other we watched grow up early in the work. This is important as it shows us that while the struggle may change, the struggle remains. No one is promising it will go away, because the truth is, it won’t. And yet, it changes – what was difficult for the father as a young man is not difficult for his son, but new challenges have risen up to take its place.
Let’s fast forward 200 years and look at this under the bright light of 2012 and beyond. The hard times my father endured, growing up on a poor farm during the height of the Great Depression, were nothing like what I saw as a boy, but the 1960’s and ‘70s were still turbulent and forced new challenges on me. Still, things are relative to where YOU are – not someone else, in another time and another place. YOUR challenges are the worst! No one has it as bad as you! I thought that way too. Then my children came along and came of age just as computers and the internet flooded schools. Now they’ve endured, survived, and flourished. It’s your turn! You too will endure, but beyond just enduring, you will THRIVE! Let’s go back to the novel and see why.
To see the future, look to the past. Ideas, technology, pressures, and obstacles change as the calendar flips away the years. But we endure and, as I said, we thrive. You will too, even though right now it may not feel that way. My challenge to young men and women, boys and girls, who carry the regal blood of the men and women like those depicted in Cherokee Talisman is to pick up a pen. Not literally – we don’t do that much anymore. J But close out of the internet for a while. Instead open MS Word. See that big blank page? Fill it.
Not sure where to begin? Start close to home. Interview your parents and your grandparents. What were their childhoods like? What were their challenges? Their pressures? What can they share about being born with regal blood? A little? A lot? Whatever they can give becomes the corner stone of that blank page.
Now research your history, your tribe, your native nation. What you learn is now the foundation for that page. Where you go will be based on historical accuracy – FACT – not “Hollywood fact”, but the real deal – not always fun and spectacular, and often harsh and cruel, but the facts just the same.
Ok, the homework part is over. Let’s shift into high-imagination-gear! Take what you now know and give your story a name and a face – a name and face of a character or a number of characters. Be descriptive. Your readers need to know what they look like, sound like, act like, smell like! Not just “tall”, how tall? Taller than this… shorter than that. Not just “quiet”, “pretty”, “happy”, “sad”, “loud”, “angry”, but ask yourself, “How happy?” And most importantly for a good story ask yourself, “Why?” “Why happy?” “Why sad?” The ‘why’ is where you take over. Only YOU can direct your story and your characters. Your characters will do what you write (trust me on this one). Use your own experiences to help move them through the story.
Use colors. “Paint words.” This gives words an emotion. It is a trick I use often. I have a blue angry (so mad on the outside because the character is sad or disappointed on the inside). I have a purple angry (he or she is hurting – bruised – and strikes out) and there’s the red angry (you can figure that one out!). Close your eyes and think of the word ‘ANGRY’. Paint the word blue. Paint it purple. Paint it red. Try a different color. Feel a change? See how it works? Now here’s where it gets tougher – take that change and describe it. Fill in all the blank spaces around that change with words – describing, showing words.
Your readers can read that page of yours, but they can’t read your mind! Help them out. Don’t just TELL a story, SHOW a story!
Here’s a very important lesson for young authors. Try to remember the first time you did ANYTHING. Tried a cartwheel. Tried to swim. Algebra. Punted a football. Uploaded to Youtube. Rode a bike. Drove a car? Used a new cellphone. The list is endless.
It’s ok to admit it – you weren’t very good. Me either.
After a lot of practice, we got better. Writing is like that. You get better. Words come easier. Stories jump off the page! I tell people that writing is like a muscle – the more you work it, the stronger it gets.
So start. Lay a cornerstone. Discover your foundation. Create characters. Show your readers how & why.
My HAPPY STORY is that I wrote Cherokee Talisman. I can pick up the book with a sense of satisfaction and pride, not just in having told an entertaining story, but doing it in a way that reflects honestly on native culture so someone else can know the future by knowing the past.
Write your own HAPPY STORY. Do it for others who don’t know your story, but want to or need to. The story itself may not always be happy. That’s ok. Cherokee Talisman is that way. But the result becomes its own HAPPY STORY. Native heritage is special. It’s so very unique. Don’t let those stories of yours go untold. Only YOU can show YOUR stories. If you don’t do it, it won’t get done. Pick up your pen! http://billionnatives.com/node/317
ABOUT 1 Billion Happy Native Stories
The word “Native” includes people, plants and animals and is synonymous with the following: Indigenous, Aboriginal, original and innate.
Partners of the Heart is a web based and interactive company where people pay a minimum of $1 to share a positive story that will be digitally archived forever. The reason people pay for these stories is because our clients who are non profits receive a minimum of 25% of the $1 story and those funds are filtered directly back into the charitable organization. Charities have had a hard time reaching their audience digitally and this gives them an outlet and an additional way to finance or capitalize their charity.
Go to http://billionnatives.com/ to create your own Happy Native Story!
Related articles
http://www.billionnatives.com/node/317 (Billion Natives.com Happy Stories)
November 21, 2012
Cherokee Talisman is Out!
Happy Thanksgiving, friends & family! I timed the release of my newest novel to coincide with the Thanksgiving Holiday. Native Americans were a tremendous part of the 1st feast as they taught and supported the earliest colonists. Unfortunately, their generosity and caring was crushed by demands for land and racist attitudes. I believe you will enjoy this novel’s stark look at the events in the years that followed that 1st Thanksgiving. Cherokee Talisman has been endorsed by the Chief of the modern-day Cherokee Nation for its representation of the Cherokee and the accuracy of events. I was humbled by Chief Bill John Baker as he penned the foreword.
Thank you for your past support & sharing these links with your family & friends during this special time of year. I believe we can watch together as Cherokee Talisman reaches the top of the Amazon charts with a concerted effort in these next few days. Happy Holidays to you and yours.
Wa-do.
David-Michael
Cherokee Talisman by David-Michael Harding Released November 21st, 2012! 
They were blood-thirsty savages – superstitious, dirty animals.
They were thieves and killers who burned houses to the ground and kidnapped women and children.
They were protectors of a Nation – guerrilla fighters serving their country.
They were husbands and fathers who built homes in lush valleys for their families.
They were – the same men.
In 1775 perspective came with the color of your skin.
An orphan boy, Totsuhwa, is taken under the wing of legendary Cherokee war chief Tsi’yugunsini, the Dragon. But even under a dragon’s wing isn’t safe when a covetous nation forms around them.
Amid the battles, Totsuhwa fights the reoccurring pain of loss until he meets Galegi, who becomes his wife. Trying to raise their son in a peace the new world won’t allow, they teach him the strictest Cherokee traditions while white assimilation, encroachment, and treachery grows. General Andrew Jackson wages war against tribes across the southeast and the toll is high. With his people gradually losing everything, Totsuhwa must find a way to save his family — and the Cherokee Nation — before all is lost.
Cherokee Talisman recreates the neglected history that existed when one nation was born and another almost died.
“Cherokee Talisman brings to life characters from our history and through a flare for fiction and historical research, Harding tells their story. Cherokees that might be painted by racist misconceptions as blood thirsty savages are humanized by Harding, making them heroes of a very real time. History is written by the victorious, but when almost forgotten historical characters are brought to life they are preserved for the ages, and in this preservation David-Michael Harding has succeeded.” – Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Bill John Baker Foreword by Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Bill John Baker
Take a peak at the attached trailer which will be posted @ You-Tube in the next few days! Cherokee Talisman Trailer
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Cherokee Talisman to be Released 11/21/12! Foreword Written by Chief of Cherokee Nation!
English: B/W Seal of the Cherokee nation (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
There are few places more beautiful than the Cherokee homeland in the fall of the year. It is during the fall that our Creator paints the leaves on the maples and oaks, making the forests a colorful display of beauty. It was also in these same forests that many Cherokees lived, loved, and died. Our history as a people was so affected by the Trail of Tears that many historians begin the telling of our story at the Trail of Tears moving forward, and those who walked through those forests of maples and oaks are all but forgotten.
David-Michael Harding, in his novel Cherokee Talisman, takes the reader to our homeland in the fall of the year, in such a way that the reader can almost smell the earth and see the beautiful colors of the leaves. It is a glimpse of oneness with the land that Harding conveys to the reader so that the love of our homeland, and the desire to protect it, can be felt by the human spirit and understood. Cherokee Talisman brings to life characters from our history and through a flare for fiction and historical research, Harding tells their story. Cherokees that might be painted by racist misconceptions as blood thirsty savages are humanized by Harding, making them heroes of a very real time in our history forgotten by man, and preserved by few. History is written by the victorious, but when almost forgotten historical characters are brought to life, and their stories told, they are preserved for the ages, and in this preservation David-Michael Harding has succeeded.
Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Bill John Baker
Tahlequah, OK
November 2012
November 11, 2012
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2012
How Angels Die and Cherokee Talisman by David-Michael Harding : Interview
Two sisters take different roads in their work for the French Resistance
during World War II. Claire is an active guerrilla fighter while Monique
seduces German officers to learn military secrets from bedroom pillows.
Love enters in for both as battles rage in their family over the morality of
killing vs. sex while, unknown to them all, D-Day rapidly approaches.
How Angels Die is a highly dramatic novel with very strong female protagonists. The story is rife with action, conflict, and intrigue. Through it all, the characters struggle with devotion to family, country, cause, and oneself. The reader is effortlessly drawn along the storyline and feels the impact of the events surrounding the sisters. Compassion for the characters, German as well as French, runs deep and captures the imagination as coastal war-torn France comes alive on the pages.
More than a war story, How Angels Die (WGA registered/125K wds) compels its readers to face the decision-making processes that bring us to where we are and who we are. It also asks questions of the mind that expose prejudices and the eventual regret that follows.
Book Trailer: How Angels Die
In the darkest days of World War II, when France found itself at the mercy of a brutal dictator, the frontlines of resistance may just have been in the grasp of a few good women. In four fateful days, two remarkable sisters, Monique and Claire McCleash, battle the German occupation of their coastal French town in the early days of June 1944. While their mission is the same, their methods of upending the occupation are irreconcilably at odds. The strikingly beautiful Monique puts her body and wit to work for the Resistance by dating and sleeping with German officers, while her younger sister Claire elects instead to serve as an active combat guerilla fighter for the cause.
“In How Angels Die Harding delivers an edge of the seat read as he skillfully summarizes the events and pain of years of conflict during the Nazi occupation ofFrance into ninety-six gut wrenching, mesmerizing hours.” David Roth, TampaWriting Examiner
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They were blood-thirsty savages – superstitious, dirty animals.
They were thieves and killers who burned houses to the ground and kidnapped women and children.
They were protectors of a Nation – guerrilla fighters serving their country.
They were husbands and fathers who built homes in lush valleys for their families.
They were – the same men.
In 1775 perspective came with the color of your skin.
An orphan boy, Totsuhwa, is taken under the wing of legendary Cherokee war chief Tsi’yugunsini, the Dragon. But even under a dragon’s wing isn’t safe when a covetous nation forms around them.
Amid the battles, Totsuhwa fights the reoccurring pain of loss until he meets Galegi, who becomes his wife. Trying to raise their son in a peace the new world won’t allow, they teach him the strictest Cherokee traditions while white assimilation, encroachment, and treachery grows. General Andrew Jackson wages war against tribes across the southeast and the toll is high. With his people gradually losing everything, Totsuhwa must find a way to save his family — and the Cherokee Nation — before all is lost.
Cherokee Talisman recreates the neglected history that existed when one nation was born and another almost died.
Welcome! Thanks so much for being here an allowing me to badger you with my questions. I’m excited to find out more about you and your books. Let’s start with this one.
Tell us about your current release.
How Angels Die is historical fiction set in France over four days in early June 1944. The protagonists are two sisters, Monique & Claire McCleash, who are committed to the French Resistance. That commitment wears two distinct faces however – Monique dates German officers to gain military intelligence from whispered words on bedroom pillows. Claire is a machine gun totting active guerrilla fighter. The severe contrast of their approaches generates conflict between the sisters and fractures their love for each other. The fracture is widened by their parent’s positions which pit husband and wife against one another. The story is layered by other members of the Resistance as well as the German occupiers – each with wide flung agendas and their own loves and losses.
Tell us about your next release.
Cherokee Talisman mingles the history of the Cherokee Indian Nation with the fledgling United States between 1775 and 1821. The conflicts are plentiful when one nation is born at the expense of another. An orphaned Cherokee boy is taken under the wing of real-life legendary Cherokee War Chief, Dragging Canoe. Throughout a decades long maturity on the new nation’s frontier, the boy grows into a powerful priest whose goal is to protect and preserve his people as well as his young family. Despite his violent training, he strives to be a man of peace, but the turmoil of abandonment at the constant loss of those he loves takes him to the brink. Slave raiders push him over it and a race is on to preserve both nation and family.
What is the hardest part of writing your books?
Research, research, research – accuracy is imperative and also provides a hidden backdrop of education for readers
Where do you research for your books?
In person or generational interviews whenever possible. Read, read, read!
How do you describe your writing style?
Eavesdropping on great characters. Create believable multi-layered people, drop them in a believable layered arena, step back and take notes as to what they do and say.
What do you think makes a good story?
Empathy for characters – if readers don’t care about the characters, the most elaborate, thought-provoking story line will leave them wanting, empty and looking elsewhere.
Use no more than two sentences. Why should we read your book?
Edu-tainment! History is intertwined with story ( How Angels Die ) in such a way the reader laughs and cries – is entertained and learns about women’s intrepid work for the French Resistance during WWII.
Is there one passage in your book that you feel gets to the heart of your book and would encourage people to read it? If so, can you share it?
“I wasted all this time being against the thing I hate instead of being for the thing I love.” – Sean McCleash – Monique & Claire’s Irish father, from How Angels Die
Do you have a Website or Blog?
DavidMichaelHarding.com
If you could select one book that you could rewrite and add your own unique twist on, which book would that be and why?
Mark Twain’s unfinished short story, “Conversations with Satan.” He left a wonderful door wide open!
David-Michael Harding is a life-long writer whose work has appeared in national publications and has been recognized by the international writing community for his piece, The Cats of Savone. Harding’s previous historical fiction work includesForever Beneath the Celtic Sea, detailing the perspective of the German submarine crew and the sinking of the ocean liner Lusitania. He is a former collegiate writing instructor and semi-professional football player. His experiences provide readers crushing fast-paced action. Most of his days are spent writing from the cockpit of his sailboat, Pegasus, somewhere off the Nature Coast of Florida in the Gulf of Mexico. He is the proud parent of two grown daughters. This firsthand knowledge of the female psyche inspired the creation of sister protagonists in How Angels Die.
Links are:
http://DavidMichaelHarding.com
http://www.facebook.com/DMichaelHarding
https://twitter.com/DMichaelHarding
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5417839.David_Michael_Harding
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO2escu0aDc
November 8, 2012
5 Stars for How Angels Die! “A New & Highly Successful Twist on the French Resistance of WWII!”
5.0 out of 5 stars A new and highly successful twist on the French Resistance of WW II, November 8, 2012
By
Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States)
(HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (TOP 50 REVIEWER)
This review is from: How Angels Die (Paperback)
A big hand for the little ladies! David-Michael Harding has taken a famous period in the history of WW II and transformed it into a fresh novel that is as entertaining as it is enlightening. Instead of making the men of France the chief characters he instead places those roles in the form of two women – sisters who use their own wiles to fight the Nazi occupation. One sister, Monique, is the dream French beauty and plays on her looks and body to infiltrate the Nazi regime by bedding all the appropriate Nazi officers (and has conflicted responses to her role, actually falling for one of her bed mates). The other sister, Claire, is more resilient and shuns Monique’s methods in favor of hitting the enemy straight on as a guerilla fighter.
Where Harding makes the biggest impression in his technique of writing is the fact that is able to construct characters who while dedicated to the same cause – the French Resistance – face different moral issues and must suffer the appearances of the lives they have chosen – lives dedicated to their country but hampered by the responses of their own people. This book is among the best in defining the total picture of both the French side and the German side of the conflict. In the end it makes his message about resistance in the face of war far more impressive: these characters are credible people and we cope with their anxieties and their emotional responses to the war and all that occupation and patriotism means. Grady Harp, November 12
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October 27, 2012
MacDill Air Force Base Book Signing 10/26/12!
Author with French officer at MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa, FL at book signing on 10/26/12.
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Book Trailer: How Angels Die
September 19, 2012
August 17, 2012
Last Night David Michael Harding Lit It Up On The G-ZONE! Give It A Listen!
Yesterday I was fortunate to have two guests on my blogtalk show The G-ZONE. I have already had a post-up about Shellie Blum, David Michael Harding was the guest that was on at the top of the show. Below is a bit about his novel, and the link for the show. DMH was very engaging, if you have a little time, listen in to him discussing his Historical Novel, sounds incredible:
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In the darkest days of World War II, when France found itself at the mercy of a brutal dictator, the frontlines of resistance may just have been in the grasp of a few good women. How Angels Die, the epic work of historical fiction by author David-Michael Harding, delivers a highly inventive and uncommon take on the French Resistance that is certain to appeal to anyone who relishes a blood-pumping drama, which also sheds searing new light on the astounding bravery, profound passion, and razor-sharp cunning of the fairer sex during the most trying times.
In four fateful days, two remarkable sisters, Monique and Claire McCleash, battle the German occupation of their coastal French town in the early days of June 1944. While their mission is the same, their methods of upending the occupation are irreconcilably at odds. The strikingly beautiful Monique puts her body and wit to work for the Resistance by dating and sleeping with German officers; her younger sister Claire elects instead to serve as an active combat guerilla fighter for the cause.
Brimming with high drama that is punctuated by family humor, How Angels Die lifts the veil on a lesser-known side of the French Resistance. Through the prism of two intrepid women, the novel illuminates how these women employ their formidable assets and fierce love of country to face down a vicious enemy. With page-turning action, unstoppable passion, and historical accuracy, this heart-racing novel is a must-read for sisters, history buffs, and action enthusiasts alike.
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