Grettings friends!
I'm so excited to have the prolific and wonderful Cerise DeLand here in my Room today! Cerise is a history buff with a sense of mischief. You can't help but smile when you glance at her delicious book covers. And I'm thrilled she here's to tell us about her newest. Please welcome Cerise!
History
Nut or Why I Like Comanches! (title)
Say
what?
Yes, living in Texas and being a history
nut, I have read a lot of the State’s history.
Anglo women were often stolen by the Comanche Indians and taken as
hostages, prisoners and sometimes kept and made their wives.
Many Anglo children were captured by the
local natives who became furious at the intrusion of the white man into his
hunting and burial grounds. Then when cholera afflicted so many Indians and
when measles and mumps felled thousands more, the natives stole children to
replace the ones who had died. Many times, young women were abducted and taken
to replace the wives the Indians had lost to death and disease.
In 1836, Cynthia Anne Parker, a 9 year old
Anglo girl who grew up to marry a chief and bear him four sons and a daughter,
was the first of these Anglos stolen. Texas Rangers, sheriffs and many local
posses searched for the child for years. Not until she was an adult did her
uncle take her back to her family. But once among them, she disliked the life
and ran away. Yes, she returned to her Comanche husband.
Why did she return?
I venture to say she returned because she
had been nurtured in that native environment and she felt out of place among
her Anglo family and neighbors. Stories abound of white women and men who had
been taken by Indians and returned, but were then shunned by their families and
friends for their association.
Could she have loved her Comanche husband?
Yes, she could have. We love what we know and what we revere. We also come to
love the characteristics of a person, seeing beyond a person’s race or color or
ethnicity.
But I will say that life among the Comanche
was far from romantic. In my newest EC release, coming soon, STEAL
ME AWAY, (no cover, no release
date yet) I tell the story of an Anglo woman, Fancy Turner, stolen by a
Comanche chieftain in the Hill Country of Texas in 1866. Fancy knows Bull Elk because she has seen him
at powwows among the Comanche and the settlers. She likes him for his
willingness to come to a powwow. He speaks English and a bit of Spanish, as
many did because they had to do so to get along with the Anglo and Tejano
settlers.
He understands many of the Anglo customs
and so he does not insist that Fancy have her blonde hair coated with bear
grease on their wedding night. He is distressed for her when she cannot easily
digest their meat-based diet. When she asks him to get peaches for her from the
German farmers near Fredericksburg, he tells her he will have to steal them.
Conflicted that he must take from her friends to help her, nonetheless she
doesn’t stop him. She needs to eat fruit.
Yes, I have written a romance—an erotic one
at that. I did make Bull Elk an Alpha male worthy of a woman who adores him.
But he is also of his own culture.
And he is very heavily researched!
I hope you like him when he appears on the
digital bookshelves. He is a good man, albeit not one of our time or our
culture. He stole his wife, made her love him and kept her with the power of
that.
We can forgive the man we love for many
acts. Including stealing us from our pre-conceived notions of who we can and
cannot love.
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And now some information on another of Cerise's sexy series!
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LINKS for KNIGHTS IN BLACK LEATHER:
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ME IN:
In Bravado, Texas, the men are good and plenty…and lonely.
Not inclined to remain horny bachelors, the three MacRae brothers devise a plan to find one fine woman and get the good lovin’ they deserve. One gander at the new gal in town, charming Cara Ford, and the cowboys decide to do some old-fashioned courting. Then they’ll offer her a thoroughly modern deal—three-for-one. Three of them for luscious, lovely her.
Cara has returned to Bravado to rebuild her life after cutting the cord to her self-centered husband. One man was a pain. Why would she want to tie herself up in knots with three sexy ranchers known for their wildcattin’?
Undeterred, Jed, Harry and Will rope her into their daily lives, sweet-talk her into sharing their torrid nights, and set out to convince her that three hard-lovin’ men in bed with her is better than one.
Note: Contains three hunky sex-in-the-saddle ranchers who lasso one stubborn lady into their arms with menage a quatre, spanking and toys she can’t resist.
Meet Cerise
What’s an East Coast gal to do to if she lives deep in the heart of Texas, travels often everywhere, and adores Paris, Florence, London, Tokyo and all points east and west?
Ah.
She becomes an author who can write about those romantic places. With a passion for cowboys, spies, rakes, knights in shining armor and their gutsy women, Cerise DeLand is an author who adores an alpha male with a tender heart and a need for a smoldering erotic love affair with the right woman!
Cerise is a Top 20 Best Selling author on Amazon with more than three dozen works published in erotic romance, and she is the award-winning author of mystery, mainstream and romance with St. Martin’s Press, Pocket Books and Kensington. Her books are on numerous book clubs, including Featured Selections of The Mystery Guild, Doubleday and Rhapsody. And when she isn’t dreaming up fiction or traveling? Cerise is a fabulous cook and an avid history buff.
Busy lady. Happy writer.
Find her books at
Ellora’s Cave,
Resplendence Publishing,
Wild Rose Press and
Total-E-Bound!
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