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

“I’m cuming, Ethan. I’m there!”


I think I spoke the warning aloud, but am not sure. At that moment, electrical charges running up and down my belly flowed into my ball sack. I came. I gushed, and Ethan took it all. He stayed down on me until I pulled him up. He did the eye avoidance thing until I took his chin and placed his face directly in mine. I had to see his eyes. To read his feelings. Did this gladden him, or was it an obligation for my hospitality.


The laughing eyes and broad grin told me what I needed to know. Yet, when it faltered, I knew his thoughts. How did he compare?


“Thank you, Ethan. It means more than you know.”


“I’ve wanted to do that since I first saw you. But I knew Winter Bird stood between us.”


“I wasn’t wise enough to accept his love in the way he wanted.”


Chapter 41