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Santa Fe Trilogy #2
White Apache's Woman
An aristocrat by birth, an Apache by training, Red Eagle was a renegade by choice. Running from the past, he had no desire to become entangled with the haughty beauty who hired him to guide her across the treacherous Camino Real to Santa Fe.
Elise Louvois was an enigma at best, a possibly fatal distraction at worst. Her cool violet eyes betrayed none of her secrets, but her warm, willing body came alive beneath his masterful touch. She would risk imprisonment, capture by Indians, and tornadoes, but she would not risk her vulnerable heart. Mystified, Red Eagle was certain of but one thing—the spirits had destined her to be...White Apache's Woman.
Elise Louvois was an enigma at best, a possibly fatal distraction at worst. Her cool violet eyes betrayed none of her secrets, but her warm, willing body came alive beneath his masterful touch. She would risk imprisonment, capture by Indians, and tornadoes, but she would not risk her vulnerable heart. Mystified, Red Eagle was certain of but one thing—the spirits had destined her to be...White Apache's Woman.
448 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1993
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About the author
Shirl Henke
63 books77 followersaka Alexa Hunt.
Working my way through college provided great life experiences for a novelist. One problem. I didn’t know I was destined to write books. Instead, I floundered around during and after receiving my B.A. and M.A. in history from the University of Missouri. None of my wide variety of jobs satisfied me: cashier for a loan company, public welfare caseworker, assistant circulation manager for a small daily, editor for several “house organ” newspapers, administrator of a federal information program for the elderly.
Finally I was offered the opportunity to use my history degrees, teaching in a large urban university in the Northeast. I truly enjoyed it. Unfortunately, when the history requirement was dropped for incoming students, so was my instructorship. After that I taught gerontology, sociology, proposal writing for social service agencies and freshman composition at the same university. Further life experiences. My last two years of teaching were in remedial English—just the nudge I needed to take this writing thing seriously.
Since childhood I’ve been an avid reader, everything from Robert Heinlein’s sci-fi adventures to Frank Yerby’s historical romantic sagas. More recently I became hooked on thrillers. Since childhood I had story ideas in my head, but never the epiphany to write them. Okay, maybe I just didn’t have the courage. But there were just so many times I could explain what a verb was to a college senior before I realized that maybe writing a book might be easier. I sold my first novel, a big historical romance titled GOLDEN LADY, to Warner Books in 1985. Within two years, I quit remedial comp. Now I can't imagine doing anything but writing for a living. In 2005 I switched over to the “dark side.” Tor published two political thrillers, CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY and HOMELAND SECURITY under the pseudonym Alexa Hunt. I’ve also written romantic suspense for Penguin Onyx and Silhouette Bombshell as Shirl Henke. Since I began my career, I’ve appeared on the USA TODAY bestseller list, been a RITA Finalist twice, received a BookraK Bestseller Award, and won three Career Achievement Awards, an Industry Award and three Reviewers Choice Awards from Romantic Times.
My husband Jim Henke is a former cabdriver, bartender, sailor, judo instructor and English professor. He's a scholarly authority on obscene slang and a master at its use, but an astonishingly understanding man who puts up with my all-night writing sprees and sudden dashes to my desk to jot down bits of dialogue as dinner burns on the stove. Since he took early retirement from academe, he has helped me brainstorm plots and research my novels.
After four years in the U.S. Air Force, our son Matt works in telecommunications and lives in an adjacent county with his brute of a cat, Max. Jim and I now share our cedar house in the woods with a pair of utterly adorable tomcats, Inky and Pewter, whose destructive capacity rivals that of a medium sized thermonuclear weapon. But just as life without writing would be unimaginable, so would life without cats.
For therapy when I'm not at the computer or off researching a new book, I cook large dinners for our extended family, putter in my garden and greenhouse, and still read voraciously. When deadlines permit, I love to travel. I'm a member of the Author's Guild, Romance Writers of America, Missouri Romance Writers, Sisters in Crime, Novelists Inc. and International Thriller Writers
I wrote my first twenty-two novels in longhand with a ball-point pen--it's hard to get good quills these days. Dragged into the 21st century, I now use one of those "devil machines. Another troglodyte bites the dust
Working my way through college provided great life experiences for a novelist. One problem. I didn’t know I was destined to write books. Instead, I floundered around during and after receiving my B.A. and M.A. in history from the University of Missouri. None of my wide variety of jobs satisfied me: cashier for a loan company, public welfare caseworker, assistant circulation manager for a small daily, editor for several “house organ” newspapers, administrator of a federal information program for the elderly.
Finally I was offered the opportunity to use my history degrees, teaching in a large urban university in the Northeast. I truly enjoyed it. Unfortunately, when the history requirement was dropped for incoming students, so was my instructorship. After that I taught gerontology, sociology, proposal writing for social service agencies and freshman composition at the same university. Further life experiences. My last two years of teaching were in remedial English—just the nudge I needed to take this writing thing seriously.
Since childhood I’ve been an avid reader, everything from Robert Heinlein’s sci-fi adventures to Frank Yerby’s historical romantic sagas. More recently I became hooked on thrillers. Since childhood I had story ideas in my head, but never the epiphany to write them. Okay, maybe I just didn’t have the courage. But there were just so many times I could explain what a verb was to a college senior before I realized that maybe writing a book might be easier. I sold my first novel, a big historical romance titled GOLDEN LADY, to Warner Books in 1985. Within two years, I quit remedial comp. Now I can't imagine doing anything but writing for a living. In 2005 I switched over to the “dark side.” Tor published two political thrillers, CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY and HOMELAND SECURITY under the pseudonym Alexa Hunt. I’ve also written romantic suspense for Penguin Onyx and Silhouette Bombshell as Shirl Henke. Since I began my career, I’ve appeared on the USA TODAY bestseller list, been a RITA Finalist twice, received a BookraK Bestseller Award, and won three Career Achievement Awards, an Industry Award and three Reviewers Choice Awards from Romantic Times.
My husband Jim Henke is a former cabdriver, bartender, sailor, judo instructor and English professor. He's a scholarly authority on obscene slang and a master at its use, but an astonishingly understanding man who puts up with my all-night writing sprees and sudden dashes to my desk to jot down bits of dialogue as dinner burns on the stove. Since he took early retirement from academe, he has helped me brainstorm plots and research my novels.
After four years in the U.S. Air Force, our son Matt works in telecommunications and lives in an adjacent county with his brute of a cat, Max. Jim and I now share our cedar house in the woods with a pair of utterly adorable tomcats, Inky and Pewter, whose destructive capacity rivals that of a medium sized thermonuclear weapon. But just as life without writing would be unimaginable, so would life without cats.
For therapy when I'm not at the computer or off researching a new book, I cook large dinners for our extended family, putter in my garden and greenhouse, and still read voraciously. When deadlines permit, I love to travel. I'm a member of the Author's Guild, Romance Writers of America, Missouri Romance Writers, Sisters in Crime, Novelists Inc. and International Thriller Writers
I wrote my first twenty-two novels in longhand with a ball-point pen--it's hard to get good quills these days. Dragged into the 21st century, I now use one of those "devil machines. Another troglodyte bites the dust
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November 24, 2015
Intrigue, Spies and Love in the Old West!
Set in America beginning in 1797 (Ch. 1) and 1802 (Ch. 2), this is the story of Santiago Quinn, Count of Arando, aka Red Eagle, who is half brother to Night Wind from book 1 (same Irish father; different mothers). Even though Santiago is an aristocrat by birth from his Spanish mother, after a duel goes awry, white society and his spoiled fiancé reject him so he turns to the Lipan Apaches and his half brother.
Santiago meets beautiful half-French Elise Louvois, a married woman who lives apart from her husband, when she hires him to take her to Santa Fe. She is a spy for President Jefferson and is searching for her brother who is a colonel and in danger. They are trying to prevent a war with Spain and America.
Along the way, Santiago and Elise face many hardships, including a tornado, fording rivers and a snake bite, but Elise comes through all like a trooper, winning Santiago’s respect. She and Santiago become lovers, but he has no idea she is married.
Henke never disappoints in her stories from the Old West. This one is a well-told romance rich in history of the time with real historic figures as characters. Recommended.
The Santa Fe trilogy:
Night Wind’s Woman
White Apache’s Woman
Deep as the Rivers
Set in America beginning in 1797 (Ch. 1) and 1802 (Ch. 2), this is the story of Santiago Quinn, Count of Arando, aka Red Eagle, who is half brother to Night Wind from book 1 (same Irish father; different mothers). Even though Santiago is an aristocrat by birth from his Spanish mother, after a duel goes awry, white society and his spoiled fiancé reject him so he turns to the Lipan Apaches and his half brother.
Santiago meets beautiful half-French Elise Louvois, a married woman who lives apart from her husband, when she hires him to take her to Santa Fe. She is a spy for President Jefferson and is searching for her brother who is a colonel and in danger. They are trying to prevent a war with Spain and America.
Along the way, Santiago and Elise face many hardships, including a tornado, fording rivers and a snake bite, but Elise comes through all like a trooper, winning Santiago’s respect. She and Santiago become lovers, but he has no idea she is married.
Henke never disappoints in her stories from the Old West. This one is a well-told romance rich in history of the time with real historic figures as characters. Recommended.
The Santa Fe trilogy:
Night Wind’s Woman
White Apache’s Woman
Deep as the Rivers
June 9, 2022
I really like this author. You think her trilogy will be a bodice ripper romance and there's certainly plenty of that. But it's also a historical romance taking place during the time of the Louisiana Purchase and the struggle between the Spanish, the American Indians and the relatively young American West under President Jefferson. The players are involved in all kinds of spying. Quite entertaining actually.
March 21, 2023
If you’re interested in a different setting for a historical romance book and a thrilling page turner that keeps u reading until late at night, try White Apache’s Woman by Shirl Henke (1993).
This is a tale of espionage and adventure during the era of the Louisiana Purchase and includes appearances by President Thomas Jefferson. A Spanish-Irish renegade, Santiago, raised by the Apache is hired by a mysterious French-American woman, Elisa who works for the president. She wants him to take her to Santa Fe in the Spanish territory to find her missing brother. A married woman, Elisa keeps the main reason for her journey from Santiago… spying for the U.S. government.
The engrossing story lets the romance take center stage and actual historical events provide a believable plot. The pacing of this book is perfect … as the attraction between the hero and heroine heats up to plenty of passionate sex scenes described in nice detail. Their love survives the 1,000 mile trek from St Louis to Santa Fe, estrangement, capture, a tornado, plenty of despicable villains, and heartbreaking misunderstandings.
This book is everything that an excellent HR should be… great writing, interesting story, strong engaging characters and pages of scorching hot sex scenes. Bonus: no abrupt ending… there’s plenty of space for Santiago and Elise to have their happily ever after. It’s the second book in the Santa Fe Trilogy but can easily be read as a standalone. Also available as an ebook and it’s five stars.
This is a tale of espionage and adventure during the era of the Louisiana Purchase and includes appearances by President Thomas Jefferson. A Spanish-Irish renegade, Santiago, raised by the Apache is hired by a mysterious French-American woman, Elisa who works for the president. She wants him to take her to Santa Fe in the Spanish territory to find her missing brother. A married woman, Elisa keeps the main reason for her journey from Santiago… spying for the U.S. government.
The engrossing story lets the romance take center stage and actual historical events provide a believable plot. The pacing of this book is perfect … as the attraction between the hero and heroine heats up to plenty of passionate sex scenes described in nice detail. Their love survives the 1,000 mile trek from St Louis to Santa Fe, estrangement, capture, a tornado, plenty of despicable villains, and heartbreaking misunderstandings.
This book is everything that an excellent HR should be… great writing, interesting story, strong engaging characters and pages of scorching hot sex scenes. Bonus: no abrupt ending… there’s plenty of space for Santiago and Elise to have their happily ever after. It’s the second book in the Santa Fe Trilogy but can easily be read as a standalone. Also available as an ebook and it’s five stars.
October 11, 2014
love this author great book
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