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Dominica: local desert dwellers call her La Loca Santa, the holy crazy one, who lives with a padre's ghost. Riding out of the broiling foothills, a gunman releases horrors that for the past seven years were locked in a chamber of oblivion in Dominica's mind. She intuitively knows he is linked to the secrets the mountain holds and has come to take her away. He does, into Apacheria, where both their unexpected destinies lie ahead of them.
The gunman: an ex-Indian fighter reincarnated as a gunfighter inexrably committed to a single purpose—avenging the brutal murder of his Indian wife and unborn child in his former life—until he finds himself drawn from his vengeful course by a stronger force to fulfill an unfulfilled promise in his other life to save a girl from abandonment by fate. Used to the fetor of sweet decay of the dark side of life, he gets woozy on the forgotten fragrance of wholesome freshness exuded by Dominica’s innocence, which changes him from the cold killing machine he’s become to the warm-blooded man he once was, and he sacrifices his providential chance to achieve his vindictive goal for self-redemption.
Cry of a Cactus Wren is a novel of suspense, mystery, adventure, and romance set against the historical backdrop of territorial New Mexico after the Civil War, leaning on the paranormal as Hispanic Southwest and Native American legends do.
Dominica: local desert dwellers call her La Loca Santa, the holy crazy one, who lives with a padre's ghost. Riding out of the broiling foothills, a gunman releases horrors that for the past seven years were locked in a chamber of oblivion in Dominica's mind. She intuitively knows he is linked to the secrets the mountain holds and has come to take her away. He does, into Apacheria, where both their unexpected destinies lie ahead of them.
The gunman: an ex-Indian fighter reincarnated as a gunfighter inexrably committed to a single purpose—avenging the brutal murder of his Indian wife and unborn child in his former life—until he finds himself drawn from his vengeful course by a stronger force to fulfill an unfulfilled promise in his other life to save a girl from abandonment by fate. Used to the fetor of sweet decay of the dark side of life, he gets woozy on the forgotten fragrance of wholesome freshness exuded by Dominica’s innocence, which changes him from the cold killing machine he’s become to the warm-blooded man he once was, and he sacrifices his providential chance to achieve his vindictive goal for self-redemption.
Cry of a Cactus Wren is a novel of suspense, mystery, adventure, and romance set against the historical backdrop of territorial New Mexico after the Civil War, leaning on the paranormal as Hispanic Southwest and Native American legends do.