Thirty-two-year-old mixed blood John Strobaw, known to the Sioux as Medicine Hair, returns to his Turtle Crick Farm after a six-year exile on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Grief-stricken at the loss of his mate and lover Matthew Brand, known as Shambling Bear, at the Battle of Wounded Knee, he struggles to become a farmer again while fighting an internal battle to let go of the past and face his future. Will that future be with his best friend Winter Bird or with Pretty Face, an outrageous flirt who hasn’t yet decided who he is?<br><br>But before he can come to grips with this, John faces several battles. Will his former friends and neighbors accept him now the Indian War has come to an end? Can John forgive those same friends and neighbors after the murderous ambush of the Sioux by the 7th Cavalry at Wounded Knee? Or survive the hostility of an Indian-hating sheriff named Charles Landreth and protect himself against the mindless fear and loathing for Two Spirits, men who love men?

Wastelakapi…Beloved

“But there’s more,” he said. “Lots more.” Ethan settled himself on the bed more comfortably and ended up pressing his hip against me. “Bird got between my legs and lifted them to his shoulders. His cherubbed my unzeuntil I thought I couldn’t stand it. He was still wet from his cum. Then he pushed. He put it in me! And it went right in like it belonged there.”


Ethan switched to English. “He fucked me, John. Just like a man fucks a woman. I guess. And it was…it was…”


“I know,” I whispered. “I know.”


“I don’t have the words to describe it. You do, but I don’t.”


“It was as if you were complete after all that waiting. As if this was the way things were meant to be. You felt like the Great Spirit, Himself, was looking down and saying, ‘I have made you so, and this is the closest to heaven I can bring you.’”


“Yes! Like that. And when he came inside me, I thought he was going to die from it. And then I came while he was in me, and we died together.”


Chapter 26