Wake of Vultures (The Shadow, #1)

by Lila Bowen

You could trust the heat, trust the sun’s honest light.

“No one pokes the biggest, dumbest bull in the herd, but no one follows him, either,”

It was a brave thing, being a woman alone,

All these feelings—she didn’t want a damn one of them. It was all too complicated.

I’ll not have them taking anything from me that I’m not willing to give.”

“So not every person fits into the little rooms we build to hold them. There are infinite combinations of human and inhuman, male and female, brown and white.”

The whole book in one line.

you know what happens when heavily armed white folks set out to protect white folks.