Nokosee: Rise of the New Seminole (Book 1)
Cultures clash, sparks fly, love blooms, people die, and two kids, one a little bit punk and the other way too country, see their lives changed forever. Stormy Jones has to spend summers with her father, an Everglades park ranger. Thinking it might build character, he drags her along to fight an Everglades fire and promptly loses her when it gets out of control. Stormy is helpless in the Natural World until Nokosee stumbles upon her. Raised deep in the Everglades, Nokosee has never seen a white person before, much less one with "sky eyes and flamingo hair." Built like a bronze Adonis, 17-year-old Nokosee and Stormy begin a series of amazing adventures as a modern day "Tarzan and Jane" and it's only a matter of time before they fall into a libido fueled mixed-up kinda love. Too bad for them. Nokosee's father is certifiably deranged. Nokosee is the first of the "New Seminole" whom he is grooming to take back the "Outside." The last thing he wants is for his son to fall for an "Outsider." Stormy's dad isn't much better. Calling him dysfunctional is being too kind. Trying to love each other under these conditions and more sets into motion a grand adventure of mystery, betrayal, and murder.
YA, Coming of Age, Fierce Heroine, Environmental, Conservation, Action, Adventure, Mature scenes involving violence and sex.
Cultures clash, sparks fly, love blooms, people die, and two kids, one a little bit punk and the other way too country, see their lives changed forever. Stormy Jones has to spend summers with her father, an Everglades park ranger. Thinking it might build character, he drags her along to fight an Everglades fire and promptly loses her when it gets out of control. Stormy is helpless in the Natural World until Nokosee stumbles upon her. Raised deep in the Everglades, Nokosee has never seen a white person before, much less one with "sky eyes and flamingo hair." Built like a bronze Adonis, 17-year-old Nokosee and Stormy begin a series of amazing adventures as a modern day "Tarzan and Jane" and it's only a matter of time before they fall into a libido fueled mixed-up kinda love. Too bad for them. Nokosee's father is certifiably deranged. Nokosee is the first of the "New Seminole" whom he is grooming to take back the "Outside." The last thing he wants is for his son to fall for an "Outsider." Stormy's dad isn't much better. Calling him dysfunctional is being too kind. Trying to love each other under these conditions and more sets into motion a grand adventure of mystery, betrayal, and murder.
YA, Coming of Age, Fierce Heroine, Environmental, Conservation, Action, Adventure, Mature scenes involving violence and sex.
Nokosee & Stormy: Love and Bullets (Book 2)
You're Stormy Jones, a pregnant 17-year-old punk rock chick with "sky eyes" and a pink tipped blond Mohawk with spear tats on each side of your shaved head. You're racing a stolen chopper that belongs to the chief of the Seminoles and it seems half the cops in south Florida are hot on your tail from land, sea, and air. You're wanted by the Feds for domestic terrorism and you and your Seminole/Cuban boyfriend Nokosee just made the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List but it's all a big misunderstanding. You didn't mean for anyone to get hurt. If it counts for anything, you did it for love; to love and protect Nokosee and the baby he put inside you. He's the first of the New Seminole groomed by his nutcase dad Busimanolotome Osceola to wage an eco-war on the "Outside" that will restore south Florida to its natural state. But that's not you. You're not a tree hugger, you're a boy hugger, a one boy hugger and it's not your fault people are dying all around you. In this sequel to NOKOSEE: RISE OF THE NEW SEMINOLE, Stormy Jones fights to overcome everything thrown at her and does it in a way that would make all girls proud-- not in a superhuman way or through the assistance of some heroic act of a man or monster but by her own means, stumbling as it were through raging hormones, bullets, and a host of bad decisions toward a seen it all/done it all stoic-eyed adulthood and motherhood by the time she's 18.
YA, Coming of Age, Fierce Heroine, Environmental, Conservation, Action, Adventure, Mature scenes involving violence and sex.
You're Stormy Jones, a pregnant 17-year-old punk rock chick with "sky eyes" and a pink tipped blond Mohawk with spear tats on each side of your shaved head. You're racing a stolen chopper that belongs to the chief of the Seminoles and it seems half the cops in south Florida are hot on your tail from land, sea, and air. You're wanted by the Feds for domestic terrorism and you and your Seminole/Cuban boyfriend Nokosee just made the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List but it's all a big misunderstanding. You didn't mean for anyone to get hurt. If it counts for anything, you did it for love; to love and protect Nokosee and the baby he put inside you. He's the first of the New Seminole groomed by his nutcase dad Busimanolotome Osceola to wage an eco-war on the "Outside" that will restore south Florida to its natural state. But that's not you. You're not a tree hugger, you're a boy hugger, a one boy hugger and it's not your fault people are dying all around you. In this sequel to NOKOSEE: RISE OF THE NEW SEMINOLE, Stormy Jones fights to overcome everything thrown at her and does it in a way that would make all girls proud-- not in a superhuman way or through the assistance of some heroic act of a man or monster but by her own means, stumbling as it were through raging hormones, bullets, and a host of bad decisions toward a seen it all/done it all stoic-eyed adulthood and motherhood by the time she's 18.
YA, Coming of Age, Fierce Heroine, Environmental, Conservation, Action, Adventure, Mature scenes involving violence and sex.
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This is the stuff that made Holatte-Sutv Turwv Osceola (aka Stormy Jones) legendary among the NS. Use with caution.
Coming soon!
Fashion.
Say what? Hey, the NS aren't always about saving the "Inside" from the "Outside." Besides, one of the things that attracted me to Nokosee and his meshugenah family were their Technicolor clothing. Who wouldn't want to wear a Seminole jacket? Now I discovered there's a NA chick out there who is also a fashion designer. Her name is Bethany Yellowtail. She was raised on the Crow Nation and Northern Cheyenne Indian reservations in southeastern Montana. I like what she said, "We are the first designers of this nation" and that her season's line honors "the power of the supreme feminine." Like, yeah! Check out her website to see her "Mighty Few" line which makes its clothes on native land by "creative natives"-- and maybe buy something, too. I might be a "prisoner" in the embassy, but that don't mean I can't buy online and look and feel pretty while wandering around this big glass prison-- and help a a deserving NA too. Who knew that shopping would give me some... purpose.
Below I've embedded a video she made. She calls it "a love letter to my inner rez girl." Don't know if she also wrote the spoken word narration (I suspect it was written by her friend Tazbah Rose Chavez, whom she describes as "an incredible poet, producer, boss lady, and total bad ass"), but it's worth watching just to hear those words, with lines like this: "Underneath her shirts, cheek against the sweat dripping down the skin of the woman who bore me, From a long line of women who dodged bullets for me..."
Say what? Hey, the NS aren't always about saving the "Inside" from the "Outside." Besides, one of the things that attracted me to Nokosee and his meshugenah family were their Technicolor clothing. Who wouldn't want to wear a Seminole jacket? Now I discovered there's a NA chick out there who is also a fashion designer. Her name is Bethany Yellowtail. She was raised on the Crow Nation and Northern Cheyenne Indian reservations in southeastern Montana. I like what she said, "We are the first designers of this nation" and that her season's line honors "the power of the supreme feminine." Like, yeah! Check out her website to see her "Mighty Few" line which makes its clothes on native land by "creative natives"-- and maybe buy something, too. I might be a "prisoner" in the embassy, but that don't mean I can't buy online and look and feel pretty while wandering around this big glass prison-- and help a a deserving NA too. Who knew that shopping would give me some... purpose.
Below I've embedded a video she made. She calls it "a love letter to my inner rez girl." Don't know if she also wrote the spoken word narration (I suspect it was written by her friend Tazbah Rose Chavez, whom she describes as "an incredible poet, producer, boss lady, and total bad ass"), but it's worth watching just to hear those words, with lines like this: "Underneath her shirts, cheek against the sweat dripping down the skin of the woman who bore me, From a long line of women who dodged bullets for me..."
I first discovered Bethany through this online article about how her clothing line was "appropriated" by London label KTZ at this year's Fashion Week in New York City. You can read it here.
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