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Harvest Moon
"What would you do for love?" Kiowa asks Anoki.
Her lips part and her cheeks rise with delight, "Anything!" Her sincere smile convinces Kiowa. But her next words solidify his confidence, "I would die for love!"
He cups her cool cheek with his warm palm, "What if we didn't have to die?"
She sighs, "How can we have love and not die? Hopi are a peaceful tribe that would accept our love. Kiowa are a war tribe, that will never accept our love. After all, you are one of their best warriors."
He brushes her hair out of her face, "I am their greatest warrior, no... they will not let me go. They have said as much. But, I have spoken with the medicine man. He says he has great magic that will protect our love."
She kisses his hand and whispers, "Do it then. Protect our love!"
Kiowa searches her soul through the windows of her eyes. "Even if we have to skin-walk?"
She gasps, "Skin-walk? Can we not be mortals and feel the greatest love with our eyes, our hands, and our hearts."
Frustration taints Kiowa's handsome face, "If only my tribe loved half as much as they hate, but they never will. Their hate will track us. Their hate will find us. And if they find us, their hate will end us. I can think of no other way. Can you?"
Her face becomes somber, "then I choose love. Go see your medicine man. To love is to change. I will skin-walk with you!"
"Ok, I'll leave now."
"Kiowa wait!" She calls him back, "what we will we skin-walk into?"
"Wolves."
Her lips part and her cheeks rise with delight, "Anything!" Her sincere smile convinces Kiowa. But her next words solidify his confidence, "I would die for love!"
He cups her cool cheek with his warm palm, "What if we didn't have to die?"
She sighs, "How can we have love and not die? Hopi are a peaceful tribe that would accept our love. Kiowa are a war tribe, that will never accept our love. After all, you are one of their best warriors."
He brushes her hair out of her face, "I am their greatest warrior, no... they will not let me go. They have said as much. But, I have spoken with the medicine man. He says he has great magic that will protect our love."
She kisses his hand and whispers, "Do it then. Protect our love!"
Kiowa searches her soul through the windows of her eyes. "Even if we have to skin-walk?"
She gasps, "Skin-walk? Can we not be mortals and feel the greatest love with our eyes, our hands, and our hearts."
Frustration taints Kiowa's handsome face, "If only my tribe loved half as much as they hate, but they never will. Their hate will track us. Their hate will find us. And if they find us, their hate will end us. I can think of no other way. Can you?"
Her face becomes somber, "then I choose love. Go see your medicine man. To love is to change. I will skin-walk with you!"
"Ok, I'll leave now."
"Kiowa wait!" She calls him back, "what we will we skin-walk into?"
"Wolves."
704 pages, Paperback
Published February 18, 2019
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May 4, 2019
Zachary Lovelady weaves a spell-binding tale of forbidden love between two dynamic characters from opposing Indian tribes. The story—both fantastical and historically based— is filled with adventure, danger, and self-discovery. As Kiowa and Anoki learn to live and love as wolves in order to keep from being killed in their human forms, W.H., a wolf hunter, sets out on the path to find and destroy the wolves. Through the travels of W.H., Lovelady transports the reader to the American west, to a time when the land was untamed and the law of the vigilante prevailed. On his quest to destroy Kiowa and Anoki, W.H. meets with his own share of trials. As he overcomes each hurdle—often ending up worse for the wear—W.H. discovers a little more of his own humanity, and little by little the reader begins to sympathize with the antagonist. In the end, Lovelady masterfully intertwines the life journeys of Kiowa and Anoki with that of W.H. The irony of the outcome is poignant, yet beautifully inspiring. Harvest Moon is a story that will stay in your heart and in your mind long after the last word on the last page has been read.
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