American Indian romances were popular when I was growing up, and I read more than I could ever count! Cassie Edwards, Catherine Anderson, and Madeline Baker all wrote American Indian Romances I couldn’t get enough of! I grew up being infatuated with Native Americans and their history, and loved studying about them. When we were assigned to write book reports in school, I oftentimes chose my topic to be about Native Americans.
I grew up hearing about a long-lost relative of mine named Juana, who was captured by Indians. I don’t think that story ends with the romantic lore we find ourselves in today, but it was a captivating history in my family and ended up with a happy ending.
And then of course there was Centennial. Loved that movie series and long to see it again!
The history of American Indians has always intrigued me. So I wrote Final Mend with a Native American character and, although it isn’t an American Indian romance, it does feature a character and her brother (in Fatal Snag) who are partially Sioux Indians and yearn to know more about themselves.
In Final Mend, Winona has an American Indian name of Dancing Eagle and Amy, the child in this story, wants her own name and so is given the name of Water Dancer. Amy loves to name all the characters. She’s named Reagan Walks with Moose and Naomi is named Running Bear. She thinks it’s funny because Naomi was chased by a bear (Fatal Snag) and Reagan (in her story Burn on the Western Slope) finds a stuffed moose in her home.
Along with the Native American names, another theme of these three stories is animals. In some way, shape or form, each story depicts a certain animal (or bird) for the girls. Reagan’s is a moose, Naomi’s is a bear, and Winona’s is an eagle.
I’ve always been a bit infatuated with moose as well, as most of my friends can tell you. My sister always sends me a stuffed moose for Christmas, and a friend of mine often gives me some kind of moose-related item at Christmas. And yet to this day, I’ve never actually seen a real moose! That’s on my bucket list, although I don’t want to get too close!
Final Mend is on sale for 99 cents this week, and the other two in the series are both $1.99 until the end of January. The sale is almost over, so don’t miss out!
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