First published 2009
Samuel Hunter sells insurance in Santa Barbara and drives a Mercedes. He lives in a condo and maintains careful distance from his past as Samson Hunts Alone on the Crow reservation in Montana. At fifteen, a misunderstanding with police forced him to run. Now thirty-five, he has built a safe but empty existence. Then Calliope Kincaid walks into his world and everything shifts. Love arrives as a dangerous gift, but so does something far more disruptive. Coyote appears without warning. The ancient trickster god has come to shatter Samuel's ordered life and drag him back to the mystical world he abandoned. Coyote transforms peace into pandemonium and awakens the storyteller Samuel buried long ago. As chaos replaces tranquility, Samuel must confront the identity he discarded and the reservation he fled, while Coyote systematically destroys the invented life he spent twenty years constructing.
Genres: fantasy, contemporary, magical-realism, native-american
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, found-family
Setting: Santa Barbara, Montana, Crow Reservation
Period: 20th Century
307 pages · Kindle Edition · Orbit