Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of Katherine, a thirty-two-year-old American Indian, whose husband had died from a drug overdose two years ago. After his death she finds herself in an abusive relationshipa and to escape this, she returns with her two children to the reservation she fled from fourteen years ago, only to learn that her people's long-held values are under siege by the lure of money to be made from selling off old-growth timber and operating casinos. A title in the Women's West Series. Warmly INSCRIBED on the title page "To-- looking forward to reading your book, which looks wonderful." and dated in 1999. Although not a Native American herself, the author was an attorney for the Puyallup Indian Nation and others. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-870814885.