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Savage #11
Savage Shadows
From the bestselling author of Savage Passions. Jae had lived all her life in seclusion in a mysterious region of Texas known as the Big Thicket. Even though she could outshoot, outwit and outhunt most any man in the territory, Jae was alarmed by the dangerous desires a halfbreed stranger roused in her innocent heart. Soon she found herself surrendering to the secrets of passionate ecstasy.
400 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 1996
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About the author
Cassie Edwards
163 books419 followersEdwards began writing romances in 1982 and released her 100th novel, Savage Skies, on August 28, 2007. Although her earlier books were classic historical romances, the vast majority of her novels involve Native American tribes. Edwards's grandmother was a full-blooded Cheyenne. Her first 99 books sold a combined 10 million copies as of August 2007, with her more recent novels averaging sales of 250,000–350,000 copies.
Edwards has won the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award and the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, as well as being named one of Affaire de Coeur's top ten favorite romance writers. Edwards has a reputation for meticulously researching the proper anthropological backgrounds of each tribe she writes about.
Edwards and her husband Charles, a retired high school biology teacher, have been married for over 50 years. They have two sons, Charles and Brian, and three grandchildren. The family lived in St. Louis, Missouri for over thirty years, but now reside in Mattoon, Illinois.
Edwards has won the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award and the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, as well as being named one of Affaire de Coeur's top ten favorite romance writers. Edwards has a reputation for meticulously researching the proper anthropological backgrounds of each tribe she writes about.
Edwards and her husband Charles, a retired high school biology teacher, have been married for over 50 years. They have two sons, Charles and Brian, and three grandchildren. The family lived in St. Louis, Missouri for over thirty years, but now reside in Mattoon, Illinois.
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June 23, 2025
Rating: 3.5 / 5
Although the story was still sweet in its own way, I'm sorry to say that narration-wise, it was a lot of telling, not showing. It's not enough to down-rate this from four stars as opposed to three; but, as a note to myself, I should mention that it was a very close thing.
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The story centres around Night Hawk and Jae--he, a half-Comanche-half-white young man, and she the daughter of a wife who abandoned her husband to live in passion with an outlaw. The same abandoned husband adopted Night Hawk after he was abandoned by this father and his tribe, his white mother killed in the process.
All that just within the two chapters, mind.
Anyway, within the third chapter is where the story picks up, with Night Hawk tasked with bringing Jae back home to her real father once he'd found out about her existence. Night Hawk, being an honourable young man, does this; however, wild and untamed and boyish as Jae is, he is not honourable enough that he doesn't fantasize her a little, based on his attraction to her. Not to worry though, because Jae quite returns that attraction, although she's not too sure about leaving her small, secluded life in the middle of the woods.
Danger abounds from all directions, and the plot does move at quite a brisk pace, so I can't say that any parts were boring, so to speak. Again though, it IS a lot of telling-not-showing, so some discussions feel a bit unnecessary and too full of exposition, whereas I could've sworn some parts repeated.
Again though, this is NOT enough to make it a no-read; just that, if I ever do re-read, maybe to keep this in mind, as it does prevent me from being fully invested in the characters or engaged in the story, at the end of the day.
Although the story was still sweet in its own way, I'm sorry to say that narration-wise, it was a lot of telling, not showing. It's not enough to down-rate this from four stars as opposed to three; but, as a note to myself, I should mention that it was a very close thing.
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The story centres around Night Hawk and Jae--he, a half-Comanche-half-white young man, and she the daughter of a wife who abandoned her husband to live in passion with an outlaw. The same abandoned husband adopted Night Hawk after he was abandoned by this father and his tribe, his white mother killed in the process.
All that just within the two chapters, mind.
Anyway, within the third chapter is where the story picks up, with Night Hawk tasked with bringing Jae back home to her real father once he'd found out about her existence. Night Hawk, being an honourable young man, does this; however, wild and untamed and boyish as Jae is, he is not honourable enough that he doesn't fantasize her a little, based on his attraction to her. Not to worry though, because Jae quite returns that attraction, although she's not too sure about leaving her small, secluded life in the middle of the woods.
Danger abounds from all directions, and the plot does move at quite a brisk pace, so I can't say that any parts were boring, so to speak. Again though, it IS a lot of telling-not-showing, so some discussions feel a bit unnecessary and too full of exposition, whereas I could've sworn some parts repeated.
Again though, this is NOT enough to make it a no-read; just that, if I ever do re-read, maybe to keep this in mind, as it does prevent me from being fully invested in the characters or engaged in the story, at the end of the day.
July 14, 2008
the one that starte dmy love of the savage series! This book was the first book I had picked up in since I was 12 for lisure reading when I was 16!
July 8, 2013
The book was great. I am still trying to own every single book Cassie Edwards as written.
April 10, 2013
One of the biggest issues I have with Cassie Edwards, is not the whole idea of interracial relationships with Native American, absolutely not (how could I be that way with being part Native American myself); in fact my problem is how rushed the plot goes. Example is this story, it has so not potential, but it falls so short because she rushes the love. Quite sad in reality.
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August 6, 2018
Amazing...I love this author. One of my favorite.
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