Comanche Moon

A western romance, Comanche Moon was copyrighted in 1993 when audiences did not view forced love scenes as degenerate or in poor taste by the author. Then, the cave man mentality was acceptable. Only, the hero in Virginia Brown's tale is not a cave man but a half breed, part Comanche Indian and part blue-eyed European. His American name is Zack Banning. His Indian name is Hawk. Caught in the middle of the American Indian War led by President Andrew Jackson, the hero is torn between his American European mother and his American Indian father. Uncertain about where he fits in, he finds his place when he meets Southern belle Deborah Hamilton.

Though Hawk and Deborah's love is a forbidden union, the pair are drawn towards each other by passion. Even after the hero purchases his mistress and forces himself on her, the author skillfully turns a rape scene into a consensual mating. The couple are very passionate, and their physical and conversational interplay is provocative. A talent that Brown uses to make readers enamored of this couple.

Brown creates a story that broaches such themes as bucking societal restraints and showing that nonconformity brings lovers true happiness. Though the reader unquestionably sees the hero and heroine belonging together, factions of society brought into the story do not and keep the pair apart, mirroring reality in this way. Showing correlations to such stories about improbable pairs as The Black Swan and The Taming of the Shrew, Comanche Moon brings to life a romance that indulges the reader's fantasies.