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Moon Dancer
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Fleeing a life of dire poverty, lovely, strong-willed Fiona O'Neal comes to America as an indentured servant -- only to be traded to a pair of rough and lustful backwoodsmen. But what the flamed-haired Irish miss fears most of all is the tall, handsome savage who rescues her from ravishment ... and carries her off to live among the Shawnee.
He is called Wolf Shadow -- a powerful shaman, a man of peace in a time of impending war. Risking his life and his noble mission to unite the tribes, he sweeps Fiona into his heart -- awakening the reluctant, fair-skinned beauty to a forbidden passion she had sworn to resist .. and breathtaking and perilous love she is powerless to deny.
Fleeing a life of dire poverty, lovely, strong-willed Fiona O'Neal comes to America as an indentured servant -- only to be traded to a pair of rough and lustful backwoodsmen. But what the flamed-haired Irish miss fears most of all is the tall, handsome savage who rescues her from ravishment ... and carries her off to live among the Shawnee.
He is called Wolf Shadow -- a powerful shaman, a man of peace in a time of impending war. Risking his life and his noble mission to unite the tribes, he sweeps Fiona into his heart -- awakening the reluctant, fair-skinned beauty to a forbidden passion she had sworn to resist .. and breathtaking and perilous love she is powerless to deny.
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Published January 1, 1992
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Judith E. French
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Judith E. French captures the essence of passion and brings her special characters alive on every page. A multiple award winner, including RT's Historical Romance Lifetime Achievement Author, Best Historical Author of the Year, The PEARL award for Best Anthology, and The Delaware Diamond Award for Literary Excellence, she is best known for her American frontier historical fiction. A master storyteller, she finds inspiration in her Scottish, Irish, Welsh, English and Lenni-Lenape ancestry near Chesapeake Bay, where the French family has made its home for more than 300 years. Judith’s novels have sold millions and been translated into French, Spanish, German, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Bulgarian, and Mandarin. She appeals to readers of Christi Caldwell, Mary Balogh, C. J. Petit, Shirleen Davies, Karen Kay, Madeline Baker, Elle Marlow, Ellen O'Connell, Vonna Harper, Kathryn Le Veque, Colleen French, Julie Garwood, Cecelia Mecca, Caroline Fyffe, and Hannah Howell. She is the mother of bestselling novelist Colleen French.
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June 8, 2016
Love Among the Shawnee Indians on the American Frontier
Set in 1730 on the American frontier, this is the story of Fiona O'Neal, an Irish girl who sold herself into indentured servitude in America to avoid starvation on the streets of Galway. First, her papers were sold to an unscrupulous man who ran a trading post and then to two rough backwoodsmen who wanted her for their beds. Thankfully, she is rescued by a mysterious Shawnee named Wolf Shadow, a young shaman who is respected by his people.
Very quickly, Wolf Shadow decides he loves Fiona and though his mission to unite the tribes against the English should have kept his thoughts from marriage, he says the words that unite him and Fiona. Fiona is a bit clueless about all things Shawnee until the Peace Woman explains them. When a Scot shows up, Fiona learns much about her past she did not know. An amulet she wears binds her to the past and to her white family.
As Fiona gets to know the Shawnee, we learn much about the Indians’ culture. Wolf Shadow is a worthy hero and show great patience with Fiona’s railing against his ways. Fiona has to come to terms with a life that is different than she imagined. But she is not alone as her past catches up with her. This is a good story, and French takes pains to make it a stand alone, but I recommend reading the series in order (list below) so you know all the other characters who appear.
The Indian Moon series:
Moonfeather
Highland Moon
Moon Dancer
This Fierce Loving
Shawnee Moon
Sundancer’s Woman
Set in 1730 on the American frontier, this is the story of Fiona O'Neal, an Irish girl who sold herself into indentured servitude in America to avoid starvation on the streets of Galway. First, her papers were sold to an unscrupulous man who ran a trading post and then to two rough backwoodsmen who wanted her for their beds. Thankfully, she is rescued by a mysterious Shawnee named Wolf Shadow, a young shaman who is respected by his people.
Very quickly, Wolf Shadow decides he loves Fiona and though his mission to unite the tribes against the English should have kept his thoughts from marriage, he says the words that unite him and Fiona. Fiona is a bit clueless about all things Shawnee until the Peace Woman explains them. When a Scot shows up, Fiona learns much about her past she did not know. An amulet she wears binds her to the past and to her white family.
As Fiona gets to know the Shawnee, we learn much about the Indians’ culture. Wolf Shadow is a worthy hero and show great patience with Fiona’s railing against his ways. Fiona has to come to terms with a life that is different than she imagined. But she is not alone as her past catches up with her. This is a good story, and French takes pains to make it a stand alone, but I recommend reading the series in order (list below) so you know all the other characters who appear.
The Indian Moon series:
Moonfeather
Highland Moon
Moon Dancer
This Fierce Loving
Shawnee Moon
Sundancer’s Woman
November 6, 2010
Read this book at much too young age.....but it is unforgettable!!! hot, hot book
February 26, 2020
I learned how to insert gifs on Goodreads just for this review.
There's bad writing and there's bad sex scene writing. This suffered from the latter. So much.
5 pages of the sacred "bee tree ceremony" notwithstanding, anyone who uses the terms "tumescent" or "man-spear" should be drug out into the street and shot.
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February 14, 2014
I am part Native American and I really wish that if whites are going to write about us, they really use their minds. There are so many flaws in this story, I could hardly make it thru it. She writes from having seen to many Hollywood movies....and making this story like them...stupid and empty. I will not look to read her again. To frusatrating.
October 9, 2015
my favourite of the series have read it quite few times
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