CUT HAND
This novel is a romantic action epic of an unorthodox
love between Billy Strobaw, a white youth on the American frontier escaping his
Tory family's past, and Cut Hand, a young warrior destined for the leadership
of his band. The sexuality of the protagonists becomes merely a personal
footnote in the struggle of the Plains tribes to preserve a way of life that
has served them well for generations. Told partially in Colonial and early
American English, the novel follows these two lovers from 1832 to 1861, thirty
tumultuous years on young America's frontier. Click on the link to the left to read the prologue and first chapter.
RIVER OTTER
A sequel to Cut Hand, this novel picks up
the story of River Otter and Major James Morrow during and after the American
War Between-the-States. A survivor of the wholesale massacre of his people,
Otter faces the changing mores confronting homosexuals—changes imposed by the
conquering Anglo culture. As the war begins to wind down, he leaves the only
home he has ever known to help Major Morrow, the Commandant of Ft. Yanube,
build a farm north of the fort. He begins a new life with the handsome Major
while coming to grips with growing hostility toward natives and rising danger
from a local militia bent on eliminating all bloods from the territory. As he
struggles to survive the social and political upheaval sweeping the plains,
Otter must remain true to his own set of values. Click on the link to the left to read the prologue and first chapter.
THE HAWK TAKES
FLIGHT
Six related stories (Huntinghawk Cums, Huntinghawk & Wolverine, A Hawk in the City, Otra
Vez, Grove, and Interregnum)
were blended into a novella about the adventures of Curt Huntinghawk and his
sidekick, Grover Whitedeer, members of a group of Native Americans hired by the
US government to track drug traficantes across
the Arizona desert. The adventure involves murder, hunting down a notorious
drug runner known as Wolverine, and two hard drinking, womanizing men lurching
their way toward the acceptance of their feelings for one another. (STARbooks,
“Fantasies Made Flesh”) Available from Amazon.
THE
VICTOR & THE VANQUISHED
William (Wilam) Greyhorse carves small animals and toys
for his younger sisters as a method of coping with alcoholic parents and
physical abuse by his father. With the growing estrangement from his family, he
is shaken by the increasingly powerful feeling that he is different. The day he
meets Jason Bedford in an Albuquerque park, the Indian youth’s unexplained
yearnings blaze into outright desire. Jason, a successful Anglo artist,
likewise exposes him to a different, heretofore unimagined, economic lifestyle.
When his whittling turns into art, Wilam begins to hope this will provide an
escape from the trap his life has become. Click on the link to the left to read the prologue and first chapter.
PENDING PUBLICATIONS FROM STARbooks PRESS:
ECHOES
OF THE FLUTE
The third in the Cut Hand series, this is a post-Civil War novel of some of
Cut Hand and Otter’s extended family spanning the years from 1877 to 1890,
which marks the end of the Indian Wars, except for the Apache struggle in the
southwest. Young John Strobaw lays his hands on his Grandpa Billy Strobaw’s
journal and discovers family secrets that shake him right to his soul. But it
also explains some of the feelings he has for Matthew Brandt, his brother in
all but blood. Matthew has left their home at Teacher’s Mead for the life of a
warrior, and tempts John with his body to accompany him. Will War Eagle (John)
abandon a safe life at the Mead to follow Shambling Bear (Matthew) into the
wilderness?
CHARLEY
BLACKBEAR
This is the contemporary story of an uneducated young
womanizer who likes nothing better than a party. On his eighteenth birthday, he
wakes up in a strange motel room erupting into the mouth of a white guy who
lured him with the promise of a room and a bottle. Weird sex wasn’t part of the
deal. But that incident, as revolting and enraging as it was at the time, helps
Charley understand his feelings for a childhood friend named Daniel Warhorse.
As they grope their way towards one another while working on a logging crew,
the two young Indians aspire to better themselves and decide to go into
business together trading native arts and crafts. A seductive woman called Moon
Eyes and a handsome teen named Aden Jones stir the pot dangerously.
PERSONAL NOTE: My thanks to STARbooks Press for
publishing my novels and novella. They have shown great respect for my wishes
in editing the works. I thank them for their patience and professionalism.
