Lakota Moon Rising
by Constance Gillam
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Pub Date Oct 01 2015 | Archive Date Mar 04 2019
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Description
A resilient Slave
A fierce Warrior
A love of a lifetime
Julia, a mixed race slave, escapes from a Louisiana plantation and is captured by the Comanche. She is later traded to a Sioux warrior, Trades with Horses, who is fascinated by her beauty and spirit.
Although she is drawn to the ruthless warrior, she will never be another man’s property. She will risk everything including her life for freedom.
With his people starving, Trades with Horses travels to Ft. Laramie to take what has been promised to the Sioux in a treaty—a treaty broken by the white man.
The mission goes horribly wrong.
Thinking her lover dead and unwelcomed in his village, Julia seeks solitude in the Canadian wilderness but finds her freedom bittersweet.
Advance Praise
Julia and Sunkawakan Iyopeya's story is real, truthful, honest, and sensual. The author clearly knows her stuff - Lakota Moon Rising is incredibly well-researched without resorting to any info dumps or unnecessary telling.
But it's the love story that drew me in and made me stay up way too late reading this non-traditional and yet still very sensual romance. It's like an amazing historical fiction on A&E combined with a very contemporary understanding of a woman's fight for justice and her place in a land that doesn't value her or her contributions
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9780985728847 |
| PRICE | $2.99 (USD) |
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jeannie z, Reviewer
Lakota Moon Rising, Constance Gillam
Genre: Historical Fiction, Romance
I don't read a lot of historical fiction, I'm fairly selective but this is the sort I really enjoy, a romance, wrapped up in a very real period realistic story about the people involved, the day to day issues and events that they undertake.
Julia has a sad back story but one that was very real for the time, that affected so many people. Horrible times when people of colour were regraded as less, who had no rights, whose children could be sold like possessions. She's determined not to give in to the under-seer, who routinely uses women for his pleasure, but knows the only way out is to run, and that if she's caught the consequences will be horrific.
She is captured by Comanche Indians, and at that point I almost stopped reading as what happened was pretty gruesome....but I skipped some of it and then when she was traded to Trades with Horses the story really began for me. He's a very foresighted warrior but battling not only the whites, who he knows will deceive the Indians, go back on their word, but his own people who simply don't believe them. He's fighting for their way of life but tragically he doesn't stand a chance. When he sees Julia something in her sparks to him and he determines she will be his wife. Convincing her though takes time ;-) She's set her heart on Canada and freedom. Will she give up that dream, or chose to stay with him. They undertake some perilous events, antagonism from white men and his own people in their quest to be together and its a story that I really enjoyed. It's a shortish read, a 0.5 in a series but packs a lot in to the book.
Stars: Five, a very genuine feeling story, heartbreaking at times but with a HEA – I do need those.
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