Cassie Edwards, Savage Courage

Savage Courage

Cassie Edwards

Leisure, Feb 2005, $6.99

ISBN: 0843952709

In the Arizona Territory, Colonel George Whaley leads a massacre of the Apache. One tribesman Storm watches the military slaughter his people and kill his parents. Now the chief of his tribe, Storm vows to avenge the deaths of his parents and his people at the hands of the soldiers.

Storm sees his opportunity to begin avenging what Whaley did to his family when he abducts mixed-race Shosona, the daughter of his enemy. To his shock, however, Storm is attracted to Shosona. She reciprocates his deepest feelings. While Storm's plans go awry because he is in love, the Colonel is coming to destroy his foe.

The cast is realistic whether they are the protagonists, the antagonists, or secondary characters running the gamut of the tribe, the military, or white civilians. The storyline is deep and descriptive, bringing to life the first decade following the Civil War in a vivid manner as few tales do. However, as with seemingly the entire "Storm" novels, one size fits all as the plot comes out of the Cassie Edwards' Indian romance mold. Still, fans of the series and someone who has never read Ms. Edwards before will take immense delight in this picturesque tale of love and hate in 1873 in the Southwest United States.

Harriet Klausner