Nokosee: Rise of the New Seminole

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” of the Everglades. Thinking it might build character, Sam drags Stormy 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, 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 (surviving the fire, attacks by alligators and their badass redneck poachers, knife fights, shootouts, hand-to-hand combat, and disturbing revelations-- Nokosee's dad has groomed Nokosee to be the First of the New Seminole who will lead an eco-war on the "Outside"-- it’s only a matter of time before they fall into a mixed-up all-forgiving libido fueled love-- not in some primeval wilderness spot as might be expected, but instead in a raised bed under a fake chickee hut in the Presidential Suite at the top of the Miccosukee Hotel sitting on the edge of the burning Everglades.  Too bad for them. Nokosee’s dad, after three tours of in-country in Afghanistan, is certifiably deranged and known for wearing the ears of men he's killed in a necklace. 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 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 as Stormy, driving the airboat, tries to escape with Nokosee 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.