Rolling Thunder - Softcover

Edwards, Cassie

4.33

87 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451406656 ISBN 13: 9780451406651

Publisher: Topaz, 1996

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Searching the Texas prairie for her long-lost twin brother, flame-haired Tanzey Nicole Hunter is taken prisoner by Rolling Thunder, a Comanche chief who grows lovesick just as his tribe is under siege. Original.

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Tanzey has been looking for her twin brother for the last six months, ever since he rode out alone to hunt wild boar and never came back. The soldiers at the fort haven't found a trace of him, but Tanzey can't and won't accept his disappearance while everyone else believes him dead. Tanzey is more of a tomboy at twenty as she dresses in men's attire and helps the ranch hands everyday. She can ride her horse as well as any man and she knows how to shoot a gun with precision. She rides out alone one day looking for wild mustangs when she sees a Comanche Indian who she thinks could be the war chief, Rolling Thunder. She watches him disable and capture a horse without killing it. Tanzey is impressed with his skill and his masculine appearance and that night, she fantasizes about him. When she returns to the same spot hoping to capture a horse, she is watched by Rolling Thunder, who is pleased with her skill and her beauty. He tells her to leave because the land belongs to the Indians, and when he leaves, Tanzey follows him, hoping to find his village and quite possibly, her brother. But before he reaches the village, Rolling Thunder sneaks around and takes Tanzey as his captive. Tanzey waits in anticipation for Rolling Thunder to seduce her, and she is disappointed that he does not. She is outspoken and critical of him because she does not understand certain things, so Rolling Thunder makes her work day and night to teach her the Comanche ways. Tanzey slowly learns to adapt to the Indian way of life, yet at times she still cannot accept some of their ways. Rolling Thunder makes love to Tanzey and later allows her to see her brother who had been taken captive by princess Feather Moon. She can see how happy he is and that he has totally embraced the Comanche ways. Mostly there are good times for Tanzey and Rolling Thunder, but they have some difficult times as well as dangerous ones too. There is a sad time when Feather Moon dies in childbirth, and the whites slowly invade and take more of the Comanche lands. The whole tribe's future is in question, but Tanzey and Rolling Thunder journey together, their love growing stronger as their passion knows no bounds. Rolling Thunder starts out with the capture of Brant, but soon turns into Tanzey's story. I felt that she is an immature person who one minute is strong and independent and loves her Indian brave but in the blink of an eye, questions him, his wisdom and his customs and then wonders how she could love him! This seemed to happen a few times throughout the book. And the story does not seem to be plot driven, rather it moves along with a series of events in their everyday life.Gloria Miller -- Copyright � 1994-97 Literary Times, Inc. All rights reserved -- From Literary Times

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