Dances Naked

Dances Naked

Third book in The Fairies Saga

A Novel by

Dani Haviland

Dances Naked
and
The Fairies Saga
are works of fiction. Names, places, characters, real or fictional, businesses, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously for the reader’s entertainment. Any resemblance to persons, living, dead, or fictitious, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright
© 2011 by Dani Haviland

All rights reserved

by

Dani Haviland

(
The Fairies Saga

in chron
ological order)

Naked in the Winter Wind

Aye, I am a Fairy

Dances Naked

The Great Big Fairy

Fairies Down Under

F

airies, Nûñnë’hĩ the Cherokee called them, the Eternal Ones. They traveled to wherever they wanted with
out being seen. And, to
whenever,
too.  They were invisible unless the
y wanted to be seen, were small—
barely the hei
ght of a full-grown man’s knee—
and had long, black hair. They were friendly
,
and helpful
,
and, if you were nice to them, they’d be nice to you
,
and even bring you food. This crazy white man, Dances Naked, was all this
,
but he was easy to see, very tall
,
and had curly silver hair and a beard. He couldn’t be a fairy. Or could he?

Ж

20
th
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 fairies weren’t pastel-colored, exaggerated
flying insects with big smiles–they
were rea
l entities with
remarkable
skills. They could move f
rom 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 21
st
century daughter
,
Leah, and learned that a human, too, could move through time
. He had done it himself, trave
led 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 s
how 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.

Ж

NAKED IN THE WINTER WIND, the first book in THE FAIRIES SAGA,
tells the story of Dani Madigan, a plump and
perky older Alaskan lady
who takes a vacation to Greensboro, North Carolina
,
to visit her daughter, Leah
,
a
nurse. Through an accident involving the mysterious Master Simon, she falls through time on October 31, 2012 and awakens in 1780, without her memory and in a younger, thinner body. She rescues a mountain man, Ian Kincaid, who names her Evie and claims her as his wife. Months later
,
Ian takes her to visit his aunt, the time traveling fairy
,
Sarah Pomeroy, where he abandons her. Many events and people impact Evie’s life, including the generous Little Bear and the evil British Captain, Atholl MacLeod,
a renegade
who shoots her
in cold blood
.  Critically wounded
,
Evie is sent on an emergency medical trip back to the 21
st
century where she reencounters Leah. Moments later
,
Evie is kidnapped and taken back to the 18
th
century before she can explain to her daughter what has
happened,
where she has been the last year
,
and why she now has a youthful body.
(Estimated release late 2012)

Ж

AY
E, I AM A FAIRY
continues the story with Leah finding clues about her mother’s whereabouts in a misplaced cell phone. The reportedly gay James Melbourne, the British Lord her mother met the day she disappeared, contacts Leah. He has more information ab
out her mother’s disappearance in
his bundle of ancient Letters. In t
he first of The Letters
,
Mom
explains where
she
is
,
that the characters from
Lost
, the historical romance novels by Lisa Sinclaire, are real
,
and that some of these people are
now her new family. Leah
makes
a new friend in James. The two
suddenly have to ward off attacks by the numbered heirs of Atholl MacLeod,
ne’er do wells
who are searching for The Letters
and the treasure they lead to. James receives a
nother old letter
,
apparently from
Marty Melbourne, asking
him
to go back in time to save his ancestor. However, it looks l
ike he won’t be traveling solo—
Leah wants to go back, too.
(Estimated release mid 2012)

Ж

THE GREAT BIG FAIRY introduces six foo
t seven inch tall Benji MacKay, an amia
ble soul
born in the 18
th
century
who
returned
with his parents
to the 20
th
century
as a child. Benji has read some of The Letters and heard about Evie. He searches out her 21
st
century daughter
,
Leah, meaning
to travel back in time with her. However,
he is too late. Life does not go as planned for The Great Big Fairy
,
but he ma
kes the most out of what he has.
He encounters and
helps many people
, including a six foot four female slave, i
n his
journey back in time to see his
beloved
Grandpa Jody.

Ж

FAIRIES DOWN UNDER follows a certain member of the time traveling family who is transported on The First Fleet, the convict-laden ships sent from England to the newly discovered continent of Australia. He makes the best of his situation as he serves his
sentence in the new, rough and tumble, no man’s land used as a prison for convicts. (Estimated release 2013)

Pomeroy’s Place, North Carolina

August 12, 1781 late morning

S

arah Pomeroy watched the odd procession thread its way down the road. The scrawny, stringy-haired girl was overloaded with babies, one infant over her shoulder, the other in her belly.  A dirty and disheveled man marched five steps ahead of her, his nose in the air, an overstuffed satchel slung over his shoulder. The mother didn’t have anything other than her baby to carry
,
but Sarah remembered the fatigue and discomfort of an advanced pregnancy and sympathized with her. The woman-child shuffled behind the man then stopped, shifted the squalling baby to her other shoulder, then continued her trudge. The scruffy man halted, snorted indignantly, and waited for her to catch up. Well, almost catch up. As soon as she was five steps behind him, he picked up his long stride again, apparently not wanting her to be near him.

Sarah stepped away from her semi-secluded position in the tall weeds at
the side of the road, waiting
to be seen. She didn’t want to frighten them or call out until they were near enough to converse. Maybe they had news about the war.  The man looked up and saw her
,
but did
n
o
t acknowledge her presence. He acted
as if
he had seen a crow or maybe a butterfly; she was a part of the fauna in the landscape and of no importance to him.

Well, to hell with him and his rudeness, too, Sarah thought. She would hear any news soon enough. Yes, but the young mother needed a break. If they stopped to speak with her
,
the woman could rest for a few moments at least.

“Hallo,” Sarah hollered. The man looked up toward her. Well, actually he looked right through her, as if she didn’t exist, and then continued his journey.

“I say
,
hallo,” she repeated with an insistence that was hard to ignore. “Is there any news of the fighting?” she asked, now assuming a civil tone although
,
at this point
,
she wasn’t feeling very cordial.

“Nope,” he said without missing a step.

“Hold on there a minute,” Sarah called out as she rushed over to them; it looked like the pregnant woman was ready to fall down. “Would you like to stop for a drink? I have some water here,” she offered in desperation.

Sarah could tell by the man’s stance that he was going to turn her down and that the swollen, downtrodden woman wasn’t going to speak for herself. Sarah decided it was time to get bossy. “Hey, I think this woman needs a break,” she declared. She changed her focus to the overheated young woman carrying the snot-faced baby. “Why don’t you come sit a while in the shade and, here, I’ll take the child,” she said as she extracted the baby’s fists from the mother’s hair, not giving her a chance to refuse.

The very young woman, more a child than an adult, reluctantly relinquished her hold then stepped away from Sarah, not wanting to be familiar with her. She breathed a loud sigh of relief at losing her burden
,
arched her spine
, and
then
rubbed her lower back with both hands.