Nokosee: Rise of the New Seminole
By: D.C. Copeland
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Palmetto Bug Books
Published: 6/20/2008
Place of publication: Miami, FL
Language: eng
Format: Trade
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 978096344991751299
Subjects: Action; Adventure; YA; Romance; Environment; Native Americans; Eco-terrorism; Seminoles; Contemporary
Genres: Fiction
First sentence: What are you, some kind of freaking flamingo?
Description: Because of her parent’s divorce, Stormy Jones, a blue-eyed Jersey girl with a pink spiked hairstyle to match her attitude, has to spend summers with her father Sam Jones, the “Great White Park Ranger.” Thinking it might build character, Sam drags Stormy along with him to fight a fire and promptly loses her when it gets out of control. Alone and frightened, Stormy is helpless in the natural world until Nokosee stumbles upon her. He’s a seventeen-year-old Seminole Indian on a walkabout. 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 with thick black hair falling straight down to his loincloth, brave and noble, he’s every adolescent girl’s dream date and deepest fear. After a series of amazing adventures and disturbing revelations (Nokosee's dad is warehousing stinger missles in chickees throughout the Everglades), it’s only a matter of time before they fall in a mixed up all forgiving libido fueled love.

Too bad for them. Nokosee’s dad, after three tours of in country in Viet Nam is certifiably deranged. Nokosee is the first of the “New Seminole” whom he is grooming to take back what belongs to the “human beings,” his words for Native Americans. The last thing he wants is for his son to fall for an “Outsider.” Stormy’s father isn’t much better. Calling him dysfunctional is being too kind. Trying to love each other under these conditions, including others that are thrown in to test their love, sets into motion a grand adventure, a clash of cultures, mystery, betrayal and murder climaxing in a moonlit airboat chase through a burning Everglades.

In the end Stormy breaks Nokosee's heart when she chooses to return to the "Outside" instead of following him into the Everglades and his father's mad plan, something she immediately regrets.
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