Dances Naked
The Fairies Saga Book 5
Chill Out! Books
Literature and Fiction: Historical Fiction, Science Fiction / Fantasy
May 10, 2011
Available in: Audio, e-Book
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Dances Naked
by Dani Haviland
Life was hard in the wilderness of 18th century America.
But there was always hope.
Three strangers from diverse times and cultures overcome adversity and come together for survival, finding new versions of family and happiness in this gritty and sometimes humorous time travel story.
Fed up with her domineering brother, Rachel and her infant son leave to find happiness with the Cherokee. Two more white folks unexpectedly join her new clan, causing confusion but also providing a novel solution to the one of tribe's biggest problems: no food.
20th century-born Lord Martin Melbourne had received his master's degree from Oxford but was also well-learned in folklore and the Tuatha De' Danann legends. He knew that fairies weren't pastel-colored, exaggerated flying insects---they were real entities with remarkable skills. They could move from one place to another easily---or from one time to another. He had studied The Letters, the centuries-old epistles written by the time traveler Evie to her 21st-century daughter, Leah. From these, he learned that a human, too, could move through time. He had done it himself, traveled back to 1781, and saved the life of his sons' ancestor. Now he wanted to go back home to 2013. But he was lost in the wilds of North Carolina. He needed his new Cherokee friend to show him the way back to The Trees, the magnetic time portal between the centuries. But first, he'd have to wait until Red Shirt was done with him.
Adventure, mystery, a tad of humor, a pinch or two of romance, and well-researched history in a soul-searching time travel novel.
(Warning: some disturbing events are related in the story that might bother some readers. This is NOT a children's story)
OVERVIEW: <><> Lord Marty Melbourne has traveled from present-day back to 1781. Now hopelessly lost in Cherokee territory, North Carolina, his troubles increase when he's assaulted and robbed by the callous Grant MacLeod.
Life becomes even more complicated with the arrival of a Cherokee hunting party. The chief wonders if this crazy white man, he calls Dances Naked, could be Nûñnë'hi, an eternal one...a fairy.
Marty and two very different women voluntarily join the Indian tribe for different reasons, but Marty still wants to go home. He makes his desires known to the chief, a man of few words. But, Red Shirt needs to make use of the crazy white man before leading him to The Trees, the bad medicine place that swallowed up his younger brother years ago.
Other Books by Dani Haviland
Dani Haviland's Bio
I write books, publish multi-author box sets, grow roses and other plants popular here in Oregon, and am a hardworking volunteer. Oh, and spend as much time as I can with my grandchildren. So much for being retired... I first started writing because the idea of 'What would happen if I fell into a story like Outlander' wouldn't stop haunting me. The only way to quiet that noise was to write. Naked in the Winter Wind was the result. I found out later, I was not alone. Many of my author friends said the same thing: writing was the only way to quiet those noisy Muses! I kept writing The Fairies Saga series. A year or so later, I published my stories with Chill Out! Books. Soon thereafter, some of my friends and I got together. We created a collection of some of our older titles (backlist books) with the same theme, created a fun preface for the title (Unforgettable) and called it a box set by The Authors' Billboard. That series has nearly 30 titles now. When we put together new Christmas stories, we made USA Today Bestsellers' List with our effort: twice! Now six years later, I've published one hundred multi-author box sets with Chill Out! Books. The Fairies Saga series is still growing, I created three other series (sharing a few TFS characters), and wrote a bunch of single, stand-alone stories, too! My non-set titles are available to 'binge-listen to' on Audible Plus as audiobooks here. Yeah, those muses are noisy still.