Fire Dance was written after Hunter’s Snare, but in the timeline of the series, it’s set ten years before Hunter’s Snare. It’s primarily a romance set in a future North America that has lost its technology and developed a society resembling our colonial America.

Like Hunter’s Snare, it has gone though a few changes. Originally, it was published in 2015 under the title Strongheart’s Woman with the cover below.

A few years later, I commissioned a new cover to go with new re-editing. I thought it was an elegant but sensual cover. It was done by cover artist Kerry Knutson, as were the covers for all my books until 2018.

The final cover change came at the time when I rebranded the Daniel’s Fork series in 2018, and re-titled the novel Fire Dance.

This cover has become synonymous with my brand. I use part of it as the front image of my official homepage Zeecé Lugo’s Corner. I love this cover.

This is the blurb that appears on the novel’s Amazon page.

For lovers of true romance comes an intense and thrilling love story that will steal your breath away! Immerse yourself in a time and place of fierce warriors, daring women, dark passions, and love that conquers all.

North America is verdant once again after the devastating pandemic of decades earlier. The territories are now ruled by lords, daring men of strength and action. Victor Strongheart is lord of Daniel’s Fork, a territory settled after the pandemic in what is today western Tennessee.

To cement a traditional treaty, he agrees to marry the beautiful Annasai, a princess of the new Choctaw people. But at the betrothal feast, her cousin, the exotic and fiery Setiyah, dances around the fire, under the stars. Strongheart watches as one enthralled. He knows well that the heart is a treacherous thing, and his has just betrayed him. But Setiyah is forbidden fruit; one he can only taste at the risk of disaster.

Fire Dance is a powerful love story which will have you crying and laughing at different times. But be warned: it has scenes of graphic sexual violence, which some readers find offensive. It is a delightful tale of love set in a wild land waiting to be tamed. Read it and enjoy!