Book Review: Savage Honor

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

Savage Honor    
Cassie Edwards
Class/Genre:   Romance
Leisure, Jul 2001, $599, 375 pp.

In 1784 Silver Creek, eighteen year old Shawndee Sibley wants to escape the family Silverleaf Tavern where she serves whiskey to drunks. To keep her daughter safe from the low lives that frequent her establishment, Jane insists that Shawndee dress like a young lad. Still, Shawndee dreams of balls and fancy dresses.

Shadow Hawk wants the alcohol stopped being served to his people, the once proud Seneca. He concocts a plan and abducts the tavern owner’s young son. However, Shadow Hawk realizes that his plan needs revising because the boy is a beautiful young woman whose courage and honesty touches his heart. As Shawndee revises her dream to star Shadow Hawk, the townsfolk accuse her mother of witchcraft just like her grandmother who burned at the stake. Now it is up to Shawndee and Shadow Hawk to save her mother and his people if they accept the love that flows between them.

Cassie Edwards provides an engaging Post Revolutionary War Indian romance starring two wonderful protagonists with responsibilities that conflict with their yearning for one another. The hero knows that by not saving the mother of his beloved the flow of whiskey to his people will stop, but the personal cost is immeasurable. The heroine knows that giving her heart to an Indian means eradicating forever her life long dream of high society and ending her assistance to her mother’s livelihood by supporting her beloved’s prohibition. Together, they make the plot of SAVAGE HONOR sing as the audience gains a delightful, dilemma filled star-crossed lovers’ tale.

Harriet Klausner

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