Savage Courage

Savage #23

by Cassie Edwards

A New York Times Bestseller Lovely Shoshana had been ripped from the arms of her Apache people to be raised as a white woman, far from the rushing waters and soaring mountains she had known as a child. But when she returned to Arizona Territory, a perplexing dream began to haunt her; a vision of a golden eagle carrying her mother to safety and beckoning her home. Despite her adoptive father's warnings, Shoshana knew she must answer the mysterious call.

Genres: Romance, Native American, Historical Romance, Historical Fiction, Historical

Hardcover

First published February 1, 2005

About the author

Edwards began writing romances in 1982 and released her 100th novel, Savage Skies, on August 28, 2007. Although her earlier books were classic historical romances, the vast majority of her novels involve Native American tribes. Edwards's grandmother was a full-blooded Cheyenne. Her first 99 books sold a combined 10 million copies as of August 2007, with her more recent novels averaging sales of 250,000–350,000 copies.

Edwards has won the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award and the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, as well as being named one of Affaire de Coeur's top ten favorite romance writers. Edwards has a reputation for meticulously researching the proper anthropological backgrounds of each tribe she writes about.

Edwards and her husband Charles, a retired high school biology teacher, have been married for over 50 years. They have two sons, Charles and Brian, and three grandchildren. The family lived in St. Louis, Missouri for over thirty years, but now reside in Mattoon, Illinois.

Reviews

[Tammy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a story of a five year old indian girl that sees her tribe of people get slaughtered by the cavalry.Her life is spared when the Corpiral decides to take her back with him for him and his wife to raise as their own. At first she has no memories of the attack but as she gets older she starts to remember more and she wants to go back to Arizona to be reunited with her people.

Chief Storm was also five years old when he witnessed the slaying of his tribe. He came back from practicing with his bow when he saw the fire in his village. He found his parents, his mom was scalped and his dad was still alive barely. His dad told him the name of the person who was in charge and who scalped his mom before he died. Chief Storm promised revenge for his parents and his people.

Chief Storm is hunting for a panther who killed two small children in his village when he comes across Shoshana who was being held captive by mountain Jack who is a mean guy that likes to scalp people and sell the scalps. They discover that they have the same thing in common about losing their tribes at such a young age.. They start to develope feelings for one another until Chief Storm discovers who the white man was that raised Shoshana.

Love Cassie Edwards books, her stories keep me interested all the way through.. very good read

[Diane · Rating 4 out of 5]

A young Apache girl is taken from her Arizona village by the man who helped slaughter most of her people. As she grow older, she learns the truth about her adopted father and yearns to know more about her own people. Then she meets the Chief who also survived that day many years ago. Amidst their adventures, they fall in love and marry and start a family of their own in Canada.

[Crystal · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cassie Edwards writes cute stories, but the punctuation drives me nuts! She uses the three dots (...) way too much, and puts exclamation marks (!) at the end of not very exciting sentences. And, the repetition of some points gets a bit out of hand as well. Other than that, it's a fairly decent read.

[Ashley Hobgood · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had read this book out of curiosity. I like reading this book because of the romance and adventure plus being set in the old west. I thought the story was pretty good. It was okay but not a favorite.

[Nikki Jones · Rating 2 out of 5]

I usually really enjoy her books, but this one I didn't even want to finish. It seemed like the story line was rushed and the two main characters were in love right off the bat, which is silly. Just seemed like it was a first time book.

[Julia]

i love it and i wish i had more to read i enjoy all of her books

[Barbara · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 stars I liked the book but wasn’t thrilled. It was okay.

[Denise Koopman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cassie Edwards has written a lot of books and she just out does herself.