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from Mike Katko
2025
Poetry that is blooming.
Beautiful and polished to its essence
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Trapped in a cabin with her dying uncle during a blizzard in the Jemez Mountains of Northern New Mexico in 1927, Alyssa Aleeray must create a plan to save their lives. Abandoned at birth fourteen years before and found wrapped in a Navajo blanket, she has been raised in the ways of her ancestors by her adoptive family in Otowi Station,
a village along the historic Chile Line. For years, Bootlegger Boss Walt has schemed to destroy Alyssa’s Native American lifestyle by separating her from the family she loves. For years, her tenacious spirit has served her well. But overcoming the death-defying challenges she now faces will require divine intervention. Her adoptive father often predicted, “Someday, Alyssa will attract Big Medicine.” Will his dream for her come true?
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