Dances Naked

By: Dani Haviland

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Life was hard in the wilderness of 18th century America.
But there was always hope.

Three strangers from diverse times and cultures overcome adversity and come together for survival, finding new versions of family and happiness in this gritty and sometimes humorous time travel story.

Fed up with her domineering brother, Rachel and her infant son leave to find happiness with the Cherokee. Two more white folks unexpectedly join her new clan, causing confusion but also providing a novel solution to the one of tribe’s biggest problems: no food.

20th century-born Lord Martin Melbourne had received his master’s degree from Oxford but was also well-learned in folklore and the Tuatha De’ Danann legends. He knew that fairies weren’t pastel-colored, exaggerated flying insects—they were real entities with remarkable skills. They could move from one place to another easily—or from one time to another. He had studied The Letters, the centuries-old epistles written by the time traveler Evie to her 21st-century daughter, Leah. From these, he learned that a human, too, could move through time. He had done it himself, traveled back to 1781, and saved the life of his sons’ ancestor. Now he wanted to go back home to 2013. But he was lost in the wilds of North Carolina. He needed his new Cherokee friend to show him the way back to The Trees, the magnetic time portal between the centuries. But first, he’d have to wait until Red Shirt was done with him.

Adventure, mystery, a tad of humor, a pinch or two of romance, and well-researched history in a soul-searching time travel novel.
(Warning: some disturbing events are related in the story that might bother some readers. This is NOT a children's story)
OVERVIEW: <><> Lord Marty Melbourne has traveled from present-day back to 1781. Now hopelessly lost in Cherokee territory, North Carolina, his troubles increase when he's assaulted and robbed by the callous Grant MacLeod.
Life becomes even more complicated with the arrival of a Cherokee hunting party. The chief wonders if this crazy white man, he calls Dances Naked, could be Nûñnë’hĩ, an eternal one...a fairy.
Marty and two very different women voluntarily join the Indian tribe for different reasons, but Marty still wants to go home. He makes his desires known to the chief, a man of few words. But, Red Shirt needs to make use of the crazy white man before leading him to The Trees, the bad medicine place that swallowed up his younger brother years ago.