Cherokee Fiction

A woman ahead of her time, Mary Breydon knew how to get things done. Raised on a Virginia plantation, she learned how to care for livestock, respect her workers, and keep good books. But after her husband is killed, Mary must provide for her young daughter by running a stage coach station on the Cherokee Trail. With the help of an Irish maid and a mysterious stranger, Mary faces challenges that even the men eagerly anticipating her failure would have a difficult time overcoming.

All he wants is a job as a ranch foreman. He'd tried in Montana, but ended up in a gunfight with a pair of ugly-looking brothers over a horse. Leaving one dead and the other swearing revenge, Norm figures it'd be wise to make himself scarce. He heads south, to Nebraska. Instead of work, though, he finds something he never expected--a partner. Edith is a beautiful young woman with a sordid past of her own.

Deep in the Smoky Mountains, the victim lies, sacrificed on a makeshift altar. FBI agent Dallas Sloan knows the scene all too well - just as he knows the killings won't stop until there are four more bodies. Genny Madoc's "sixth sense" has brought many of Cherokee Pointe's residents to her isolated log cabin, looking for help. But now it's Genny who needs help from the disturbing visions she sees. Thrown together by necessity, drawn to each other by desire, Dallas and Genny must band together, searching the darkest heart of a town's hidden secrets.

Cherokee Pointe, Tennessee, has seen murder before, but nothing like what has claimed the life of Jamie Upton, heir to the Upton fortune. The crime is so vicious, so personal and filled with hatred, the authorities are certain it had to be someone he knew.... The number-one suspect is Jamie's former lover Jazzy Talbot. The girl from the wrong side of the tracks has always been Cherokee Point's favorite target for gossip and worse. Jazzy knows she didn't kill Jamie...just as she knows she's being watched, stalked like prey....

The victims are all found face-down in the murky waters of the creek that runs through Cherokee Pointe, Tennessee. They are naked, except for the black satin ribbon tied around their necks. And each murdered woman shares a single characteristic... they are all redheads... Socialite Reve Sorrell has come to Cherokee Pointe seeking answers about her family history and her shocking connection to wrong-side-of-the-tracks Jazzy Talbot. With their stunning good looks and shining red hair, the two are mirror images of each other—twins abandoned at birth and raised in very different worlds.

Eleven-year-old Mandie Shaw is nervous about her trip to visit her Cherokee relatives. The journey through a North Carolina mountain forest is full of dangers like stalking panthers, and she wonders if her dead father’s kinspeople will even like her once she arrives. But the trip to the Indian reservation is only the beginning of Mandie’s many adventures. When Mandie and her friends get lost in a secret cave, they discover a pile of gold left behind by a legendary Cherokee chief. Is it really cursed, as legend insists?

Wohali, which means Eagle in the Cherokee language, started out as the story of a seven-year-old Cherokee boy living in the 1600s. In the second book, he is now about to turn eight and he's going to show you what it was like to be an Indian in the 17th century. Wohali lives with his family in the Smokey Mountains in what is now North Carolina. He shows you his life and what they think about the world around them. He will tell you about their clans and the village he lives in, and why they were so successful surviving in the mountains.

Das Leben von Prinzessin Annika und Soldat Lennox könnte unterschiedlicher nicht sein. Während Annika von Luxus und Komfort umgeben ist, muss sich Lennox im meilenweit entfernten Königreich tagtäglich als Krieger seines Hofes behaupten. Auch in Sachen Liebe sind die zwei völlig verschieden. Annika träumt von einer romantischen Hochzeit, obwohl ihr Vater plant, sie aus politischen Gründen zu verheiraten. Für Lennox hingegen sind Gefühle nichts als eine dumme Ablenkung.

Verlieb dich nicht in einen Single Dad – Das Finale der Small-Town-Romance-Serie. Die anderen Männer aus dem Single Dad's Club würden sagen, dass es vor Jahren schon Zeit war. Zeit für einen Neuanfang. Zeit, über die Vergangenheit hinwegzukommen. Aber für Garrett war das Risiko, seine kleine Tochter zu verletzen, immer zu hoch. Doch Charlotte kann er nicht widerstehen. Sie ist alles, was er nicht wollen sollte: die kleine Schwester seines besten Freunds, die ihn in seinen verletzlichsten Momenten gesehen hat, und in seinen größten – die erste Person nach zwölf Jahren, die die Macht hat, ihn zu brechen.

Haunted by the blood and bitterness of the Civil War, Houston Ballou escaped from Tennessee on the proud stallion High Fire, followed by his brother, Ruff; his sister, Dixie; and the last four mares from the Ballou farm, one of them heavy with foal. Threatened with extreme danger from either army, they head west to start a new life. Adding to their peril are deserters that stalk the roads. These men would kill for a few coins, more so for valuable horseflesh.

Er hat ihr das Herz gebrochen - hat er trotzdem eine zweite Chance verdient? Nach der Highschool ist Sedona mit ihrem Freund Jamison nach New York gezogen. Sie wollte Journalismus studieren, er Profifußballer werden. Doch dann verletzte Jamison sich schwer und musste seinen Traum begraben. Als er sich in den Alkohol geflüchtet und sie vernachlässigt hat, ist Sedona nach Lake Starlight zurückgekehrt, um sich dort allein um die gemeinsame Tochter zu kümmern. Sedona rechnet nicht damit, Jamison jemals wiederzusehen.

Cherokee people have lived in the Great Smoky Mountains for thousands of years. During all this time, they have told stories to each other to explain how things came to be, to pass on lessons about life, and to describe the mountains, animals, plants, and spirits around them. The Origin of the Milky Way and Other Living Stories of the Cherokee collects 26 stories that are great for kids and are still being told by storytellers today.

Thirteen-year-old Uwohali has not seen his father, Sequoyah, for many years. So when Sequoyah returns to the village, Uwohali is eager to reconnect. But Sequoyah's new obsession with making strange markings causes friends and neighbors in their tribe to wonder whether he is crazy - or, worse, practicing witchcraft. What they don't know, and what Uwohali discovers, is that Sequoyah is a genius, and his strange markings are actually an alphabet representing the sounds of the Cherokee language.

Jake Jackson was a legend in the Old West. His ability with a gun was unmatched. His name brought hope to the oppressed and sent shivers of fear up the spines of outlaws. Jake Jackson was equally as revered among the Comanche, where he was raised from an infant to become the Comanche Warrior, White Wolf. There were many songs sung around campfires in Comanche villages praising his fierceness in battle.

It’s going to be “the biggest hoss race in the world”! Homesteaders are set to race on horseback, in gigs and wagons, and even by train to stake their claim in the Cherokee Strip, the last bit of Oklahoma territory opened for settlement in 1893. For 15-year-old Becky Fletcher and her family, it's the Promised Land: their last chance for a farm they can live on free and clear. But no journey to the Promised Land is without trials, and the Fletchers soon run into setbacks. Each difficulty tests Becky’s inclination to further her own and her family's interests at all costs.

Barinhaber Dane liebt Frauen und Partys. Er ist der ewige Bachelor im Single Dad's Club. Aber warum kann er dann nicht aufhören, an Ava Pearson zu denken – eine Frau, die Stabilität und Verantwortung schreit? Dabei hat er genug Verpflichtungen – seinen Sohn, seine Bar – und kann keine weiteren Komplikationen gebrauchen. Vermutlich sind es die Cupcakes! Es müssen die Cupcakes sein, die ihn immer wieder zu der jungen Bäckerin führen.

Sie brauchte ein Kindermädchen. Ich brauchte eine Hauptdarstellerin. Irgendwie wurde ich Mr. Nanny. Ich habe schon nicht mehr daran geglaubt, als Drehbuchautor in L.A. durchzustarten. Aber zu meinem Glück hat mein Agent vor ein paar Wochen einen Investor gefunden. Hurra, alle meine Probleme sind gelöst! Der Haken? Der Investor ist nur bereit, meinen Film zu finanzieren, wenn ich eine bestimmte Schauspielerin verpflichte. Und natürlich muss es dieselbe Schauspielerin sein, die ich vor ein paar Monaten über den Tisch gezogen habe. Aber dieses winzige Detail braucht sie ja nicht zu wissen, oder?

Eine Kleinstadt, drei heiße Männer und ein Versprechen: Willkommen im Single Dad's Club! Marcus ist in seine Heimatstadt zurückgekehrt, um das Bootsgeschäft seines Vaters zu übernehmen. Und er ist überzeugtes Mitglied im Single Dad's Club. Einem Club alleinerziehender Väter, deren Kinder für sie an erster Stelle stehen. Männer, die keine Frauen brauchen, um ihnen zu zeigen, wie man ein gutes Elternteil ist. Doch als Marcus die Campaufseherin seiner Tochter zum ersten Mal sieht, weiß er, dass er in Schwierigkeiten steckt. Vielleicht wird er nicht mehr lange Teil des Clubs sein können.

Caras Leben steht Kopf, als ein Film viral geht, in dem sie sich über ihren Vater auslässt, der die Familie verlassen hat. Doch eine Produktionsfirma, die alleinerziehende Eltern für eine Datingshow sucht, engagiert Cara und ihre Mutter vom Fleck weg. Sie sind einfach perfekt geeignet für das Format. Schon bald finden sich die beiden im sonnigen Key West wieder, wo sie auf Schritt und Tritt von Kameras verfolgt werden. Ganz schön nervig, findet Cara - bis sie Connor kennenlernt.

It’s the near future. Stevie Henry is a Cherokee girl working at a museum in Texas, trying to save up enough money to go to college. The world around her is in a cycle of drought and superstorms, ice and fire, but … people get by. But it’s about to get a whole lot worse. When a mysterious boy shows up at Stevie’s museum, saying that he’s from the future—and telling her about the apocalypse that is to come—she refuses to believe him. But soon Stevie will have no choice.