He was only 7 years old in 1600 when John Fire Hawk,
grandson of the great Powhattan, was deemed the Chosen One by his Cherokee
medicine man on Assateague Island. Twenty years later, in England, having become
an indentured servant to an Englishman, he saves Katherine Miles, a squire’s
daughter, from a pack of ravenous dogs. And in some mysterious way he knows she
will one day be his wife.
Forced into a betrothal she doesn’t want with Robert, the
man to whom Hawk is bound, Kate flees the wedding. But the betrothal stands and
she accompanies her sister Alice to the new world where both Robert and Hawk
now live. As the Indians plot war against the settlers, Hawk determines to save
the woman he loves.
Great storytelling with well-drawn characters and rich
historical detail provide a worthy tale of life in early Virginia and the
Cherokee’s view of the beautiful wilderness. It’s a story of two cultures
clashing, and it’s an unusual love story between a noble Indian prince who
would defy his people to have the white woman he wanted. I loved John Fire Hawk
and his stalwart love for Kate.
Judith French can always be counted upon for a wonderful,
well-told story, and this one does not disappoint.
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