Hawkmoon by Nancy Williams

Hawkmoon
Nancy Williams

Loon in Balloon, Inc.

ISBN: 9780973749786

Fiction, Historical, Western adult fiction



This is a graphic western story of an abducted young girl, Sadie Hawkmoon, growing up among horse-thieves who practice domestic violence, child-rape, and other offensive recreations. Ice, the leader, kills everyone with the traveling circus Sadie has lived with since her parent’s death and steals Sadie. Supposedly Ice has taken her to gift her as a child to Paige, Ice’s wife. Paige dies in childbirth and Ice turns his attentions to Sadie soon treating her as a replacement in his bed for Paige.



Sadie is both pampered and abused by Ice, a violent man who has a distinctive appearance due to one dark and one light eye. He teaches Sadie to shoot and includes her in horse-thieving raids. Sadie doesn’t like the way they kill everyone they run into on these raids so she begins to miss on purpose on the raids.



The other women and the other men are jealous of the attention Ice lavishes on Sadie even though most of it is unwelcome to Sadie. Sadie longs to change her life but also fears that she will not be able to escape. She seizes an opportunity to escape but is nearly killed during the attempt. After her escape, she is in continuing danger from Ice and his band of thieves.



This book definitely has some adult elements and is not recommended for younger readers. I enjoyed the fast paced action although the graphic elements were disturbing