WAKAN

Post Civil War America pushes westward into Indian territory and challenges the beliefs of society-born Kate Adams. Writer, artist, and maverick, she is drawn to the Native American way and finds she is the herald of an ancient prophecy. Her dreams begin to have meaning and her visions are becoming real, as the old Indian shaman said they would. A sense of destiny envelopes her and she feels called to a different life. ....A white light shone about the feathers in his long, blue-black hair. It fell loosely on broad shoulders, naked and glimmering in the heat of the fire. The lean, muscled body cast no shadow on the ground, left no impression where he stood. But behind him she imagined, but for a moment, a shadow of a wolf glimmering in the dark. His presence was quiet and motionless.

A powerful arm reached out to her across time, through distances too far to remember. She welcomed him, the familiarity of his body, the softness of his eyes. The knowing.

Sounds in the night beat in her chest, rose and fell and settled in her loins, thickened with the drums' deep rhythm. The muskiness drifted up to her from the damp earth, mingled with the smoke of the fire, and settled thick against their skins.

Waking in the darkness, she could still feel his arms wrapped around her. She cried to him in the still night, and for one moment, for one half-blink of the eye, he was there, half man, half beast, waiting in the shadows for her to come.

A gritty saga of the 1860's migration west, WAKAN weaves a mystical epic of loyalty, romance and tough choices. One woman caught between two warring worlds. Two men from two vastly different cultures who love her. She must choose between what she knows, and a way of life that is anchored in the beginnings of time. Does she follow her eastern upbringing and country or her heart and the calling of Native American mysticism?