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Where The Rain Is Made - Keta Diablo

Paranormal/Native American/Shapeshifter

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In 1864 Colorado, Francesca Duvall doesn't know why Meko, leader of the Cheyenne Dog Soldiers, took her and her younger brother alive from their father's farm on the Platte. As far as she and Marsh know, they had killed everyone else in the nearby mining camps of Charles City and Auraia, including their father. Cesca vows to escape, but what she doesn't expect is the intense physical desire she begins to feel for Meko, an enigmatic man who appears to be much more than a heathen savage.

When not busy cataloging artifacts as assistant curator of the Museum of the American Indian in present day Washington, DC, Ethan Gray wanders time, guided by the spirits of the Sacred Council of Arrows. He's been tasked to lead the Cheyenne Dog Soldiers into battle against the encroaching whites and to save as many Cheyenne as he can, guiding them through the heartache he knows will come, no matter what he does to change the eventual outcome.

After his vision of a white “woman with hair the color of the magpie and eyes greener than pine needles,” he knows she will play a meaningful role in his life. Capturing her on the banks of the Platte, more than just her dark beauty captivates him. Forcing her to become his wife, he can't help but admire her stubborn spirit as she continues – despite the attraction simmering between them – to fight him tooth and nail at every turn. Now he will do anything to capture her love, even defying the Council when they demand he let her go. Will his defiance force the Council into separating him from Cesca forever?

Where the Rain Is Made by Keta Diablo is one of the most incredible and amazing books I've ever read. It encompasses far more than a romance, recreating the world of the fiercely proud Cheyenne as they were in 1864, and then putting a white brother and sister into the middle of what is, to them, a harsh and frightening world. This is the story of how they deal with that world and come to love it – and the people in it – making it their own. It's the story of Cheyenne courage, their determination, the mysticism they believed in, the hardships they faced, and their survival as a people in the face of almost certain annihilation.

Ms. Diablo does not paint either the Cheyenne or the white soldiers in innocuous terms. The reader witnesses their savagery and the atrocities committed by both sides, up close and personal. In 1864, Meko doesn't hesitate to gut a soldier and take his scalp, but in his own time, he lives and works amicably as Ethan among whites in an upscale DC neighborhood, enjoying all the privileges of modern society. He's a man of two worlds, and Ms. Diablo compares the two worlds in stark and often brutal clarity that can shake you to your core. Even though the violence horrified and angered Cesca, ultimately she couldn't deny that she loves Meko with all her heart and that she truly belonged with him.

There's enough feeling between the characters in this story to take you apart emotionally and put you back together again. You'll cry. You'll smile. You'll be filled with a sense of epic wonder. Where the Rain Is Made is simply one of the finest, most engrossing books from any genre that I've ever had the privilege to read. I can't recommend it highly enough. Read it; it will greatly affect your beliefs and what you thought you knew about the Old West and the part Native Americans played in it.

I sincerely hope Ms. Diablo decides to continue this book as a series. I'd genuinely love to read Marsh’s story anytime she wants to write it.

MEKO, TIME WANDERER FROM WHERE THE RAIN IS MADE