From Native Myth to Reincarnation Suspense: Hello Again on Sale for June
Paranormal Romance Suspense
Good morning. We’ve finally got the kind of weather I’ve dreamed of– sunny and warm with an expected high of 72 this afternoon. Climate change is hard to take, and there are still those out there who deny it, but unless we do something, it’s going to get a lot worse.
Authors get inspiration from many places and I’m no exception. I love myths. At the moment, one of my favorite authors is working on a Greek god series where she’s giving the entire mythology a makeover. While a similar idea has danced through my head, I’ve worked with North American Native myths myself, a Mohawk myth about the Lake of the Mountain for Echoes of the Past and a Sioux Myth for Hello Again.
Hello Again, is based on the reworking of a Sioux myth that pits the king of the wolves against an evil shaman. The shaman’s wife, the chief’s daughter and an abused woman, runs away from her tribe and her abuser, and is on the verge of dying when the Great Spirit sends the king of the wolves, in his human form, to rescue her. Long story short, they fall in love, and she gets pregnant. Somehow the evil sorcerer gets wind of this and convinces the chief that the wolves are to blame for every bad thing that’s happened to the tribe. The warriors set out to hunt down the wolves.
The king of the wolves asks the woman to save them all by returning to her father until he can come for her. She does as he asks, returns to her village, but refuses to go back to her husband and lives apart, where she gives birth to twin boys who have the same rusty colored hair as the king of the wolves in his wolf form. The shaman is furious and steals the children, but instead of killing them, he gives each one of them to an enemy tribe. Desperate and heartbroken, the woman prays and begs the king of the wolves to come for her now and help her find their children.
In the meantime, the shaman has made a deal with the devil as they say, and manages to separate the king of the wolves into two distinct entities, the man and the wolf. He kills the wolf. The human, lost without his wolf half, wonders off. The shaman then skins the wolf and and presents the pelt to the chief when his daughter is with him. She recognizes the fur, and distraught, runs out into the wilderness looking for the man. On the verge of dying, the Great Spirit turns her into a wolf. And, so, according to the legend, when wolves howl at the moon, they are searching for their lost king and his cubs.
Sad, right? But so many old myths are. I decided that myth needed a happy ending and so I wrote Hello Again. The story has its own share of sadness, but in the end, love prevails.
For Charley Winters love means loss and pain. She’s spent the last five years struggling with her grief. Existing, not living. Drawn to Saskatchewan, she travels west take the job she’s always wanted. But life gets complicated when she’s rescued from a vicious tornado by her dead husband’s double, a man who makes her feel things she hasn’t in years. Add to that a native myth, a shaman, a green-eyed wolf, and her husband’s ghost … Can she lift a millennia old curse and find joy and love again?
This month, Hello Again is only 99 cents. Why not grab a copy and see if it lives up to expectations?
“I loved Charley’s journey from having her whole world turned upside down to finding love and a future again. Bill is a sweetheart and very much driven to help others. They are brought together by a Native America curse and two spirits that need to find each other again. The rich history involved in this story was interesting and made the story a good one. I highly recommend this book.” Amazon Review.
Of course, as with so many of my books, Hello Again is free to read on Kindle Unlimited!
Have a great weekend!
