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HaBO: Native American Romance From Awhile Back
by SB Sarah | by SB Sarah | July 20, 2011 | Wednesday at 8:24 pm | 25 Comments
Keri adores romance, and she is looking for a book she read a long, long time ago, before her taste in romances changed.
It is a historical romance. A bunch of women are kidnapped by a group of Indian braves. One of the women is captured by a warrior who is kind and patient and doesn’t rape her. He waits until she feels comfortable with her, and then seduces her. She ends up becoming part of the tribe, and marrying her captor. She is the only one of her group that does. The rest of her friends are simply servants of their captors. She has two children with her husband,and brings her best friend into her home under her husband’s protection.
She has no intention of ever leaving, but she is then rescued against her will by some of Custer’s men. She is returned to her family and she refuses to live as a white woman. She only speaks the language of her husband’s people and braids her hair instead of putting it up.
Her husband comes to her and reveals that he is actually half native American and half—whatever his mother’s people are. He grew up spending half of the time with his mother and half of the time with his father. His plan is to woo her as someone from her world; marry her there, and then they can go back to the Indian village. I vaguely remember the name Justin. I don’t know if that is the hero’s name, or his best friend’s name. I am fairly certain that the heroine is named Tanya.
Filed: General Bitching, Help a Bitch Out
Tagged: old skool, native american romance, historical, help a bitch out, habo
Virginia Llorca said on 07.20.11 at 08:32 PM • [link]
Custer was an asshole.
Delphine Dryden said on 07.20.11 at 08:38 PM • [link]
Aw, frig. I think I’ve read this, but can’t for the life of me recall the name. Either I read it a LONG time ago (like in the eighties) and then when Dances with Wolves came out I thought “oh, hello, similar story”...or I read it sometime after the movie and thought the wrier was skating a little close to the line.
Dang it. Now that’s gonna drive me nuts.
Oh, and I agree, Virginia. Custer WAS an asshole.
Angela N. said on 07.20.11 at 08:42 PM • [link]
Shawnee Bride!
SusannaG said on 07.20.11 at 08:44 PM • [link]
Tanya? If her family wasn’t Russian, that’s a very non-period name.
Silver James said on 07.20.11 at 09:09 PM • [link]
Dang. I thought I knew this one! SWEETWATER SAGA by Roxanne Dent, but the Cheyenne warrior the heroine fell in love with wasn’t a halfbreed so it’s probably SHAWNEE BRIDE. I read SWEETWATER so very long ago (like 30 years!) but I still remember it and still have a copy stashed somewhere! (As a Native American, it didn’t piss me off in the way the Cheyenne were depicted and was quite realistic as well as being a terrific read.)
Heh on Custer. I still remember a bumper sticker from my college days: Custer Wore Arrow Shirts (popular back when Russell Means was doing the college talk circuit.)
Jill said on 07.20.11 at 09:19 PM • [link]
This one ?
http://www.elizabethlaneauthor.com/shawnee.html
Heather said on 07.20.11 at 09:39 PM • [link]
This reminds me of an episode of Fresh Air from a couple months back. This kind of thing actually happened! Well at least the kidnapping, getting married and having kids, and re-kidnapping.
http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=136438816
(Warning: no HEA in this story.)
Ashley said on 07.20.11 at 10:13 PM • [link]
OMG I own this!! It’s silken savage by Catherine Hart. It’s actually reeeeally good, very historical. If you liked this one, you’ll probably like Tender savage by Phoebe conn.
http://www.amazon.com/Silken-Savage-Catherine-Hart/dp/0843944625
I hope I’m right! do I get a prize? lololol
AbbyT said on 07.20.11 at 10:20 PM • [link]
Sounds like the plot of every Nora Hess book I devoured in the bookstore aisles when I was 14. :)
Journeywoman said on 07.20.11 at 10:29 PM • [link]
Absolutely Silken Savage. I loved this book when I was younger but as I grew I loved the sequel Summer Storm much better.
Raylee said on 07.20.11 at 10:59 PM • [link]
I still own mine too. It’s a great story. One I still re-read.
Kristina said on 07.20.11 at 11:53 PM • [link]
Sounds like a Cassie Edwards romance. I read all of hers when I was in High school. I think I even read this one.
Virginia Llorca said on 07.21.11 at 12:01 AM • [link]
Isn’t it understood that every book sounds a little like a Cassie Edwards cuz it is?
darlynne said on 07.21.11 at 01:37 AM • [link]
@Virginia Llorca: HAHAHAHAHA! Good one.
Tanya said on 07.21.11 at 03:25 AM • [link]
Definitely Silken Savage! I remember loving it as a teenager when I first read it and not just because the heroine and I shared the same name.
Melissa said on 07.21.11 at 03:36 AM • [link]
It’s definitely Silken Savage by Catherine Hart
Maya Banks said on 07.21.11 at 05:17 AM • [link]
Definitely SIlken Savage by Catherine Hart! My teenage heart loved this book SOOOOO much :))
Maya Banks said on 07.21.11 at 05:19 AM • [link]
but just a warning, don’t read the sequels. The one about Panther and Tanya’s daughter upset my hormonal teenage heart so much that it’s a wonder I didn’t need therapy. It still makes me sad all these years later ;)
James Lynch said on 07.21.11 at 07:03 AM • [link]
As an aside, I love Keri’s description in the original query “... a warrior who is kind and patient and doesn’t rape her.”
I would think a kind and patient character would, by extension, not be a rapist. Then again, I haven’t read any of those old-school romances discussed (and often warned about) in BEYOND HEAVING BOSOMS, so what do I know?
ashley said on 07.21.11 at 07:47 AM • [link]
There’s a sequel??? omg is it gooood????
myaamiadawn said on 07.21.11 at 03:54 PM • [link]
It could be *both* by Catherine Hart and Cassie Edwards. I mean, Edwards “borrowed” so much of her writing from so many people it’s kinda hard to keep track. (see the Edwards file on this very blog for more info)
BTW, for those of you who like reading about Native people, pretty much *any* book with the word “savage” in the title means that it’s pretty stereotypical, inaccurate & probably offensive to actual indigenous folks—pure fantasy with some historical details thrown in.
Miss Moppet said on 07.21.11 at 04:08 PM • [link]
Silken Savage by Catherine Hart? I read that book I think. Did she have a cousin who was crazy and burned her house down because she wouldn’t marry him when she came home?
Virginia Llorca said on 07.21.11 at 04:12 PM • [link]
@myaamiadawn. Re” Cassie Edwards’ work. That is kinda what I was referring to. Sorry I was so vague. Apparently one person got it.
Tandis said on 07.21.11 at 10:09 PM • [link]
I think I’ve read this, but someone with a better memory than I do has to tell me: Is this the one with the moon hut? That special place she had to go when “Aunt Flo” was visiting because it was considered unclean?
A neighbor has a teepee that, for some reason, they assemble in their front yard every Spring and leave it there for about four weeks. My husband and I have taken to joking that it’s their “moon hut” (with my husband making the gratuitous disgusting jokes). :D
Just wondering if it was the same book, because I’d love to show that passage to my husband.
Susan said on 07.22.11 at 02:21 AM • [link]
Just to throw in another possibility, this sounds a lot like Constance O’Banyon’s Wind Warrior:
http://www.amazon.com/Wind-Warrior-Constance-OBanyon/dp/0843963018/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1
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