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Reviews
"Gray Rainbow Journey presents yet another facet of the Native American in his many struggles. A fascinating story by a new voice in Indian America."
Principal Chief William "Rattlesnake" Jackson,
American Cherokee Confederacy
"Native American Christians have long known what a struggle it is to live in two worlds…the characters in Gray Rainbow Journey speak for so many of us."
Betty Mae Jumper
Tribal Elder, Doctor of Humane Letters and auhor of Legends of the Seminoles, Seminole Tribe of Florida, Inc.
"An enlightening peek…portrays reservation life clearly and compellingly…gives a window into the challenge of making spiritual choices…"
Craig Stephen Smith (Ojibwe)
Native Evangelist and author of White Man's Gospel.
"…a heart-thumping face-off between good and evil that will keep you in suspense until the very last page!"
Dana K Cassell, Writers-Editors Network.
"…an exciting coming-of-age novel…I can definitely relate to this book's characters…I can't wait for the second book…"
Carla McKay
Indian Life Newspaper
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OakTara was founded in 2006 by two veterans of the Christian publishing world, Jeff Nesbit and Ramona Tucker,
to promote and encourage fiction by both new and established authors. They publish only inspirational fiction (for adults, teens, and children) including allegory, biblical,
contemporary, fantasy, futuristic, historical, mystery/suspense, romance, and science fiction.
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Gray Rainbow Journey |
Scores of his gigantic owls swooped down upon me. I fought to fend them off; but their sharp beaks and talons ripped into my scalp and tore at my flailing arms. “Call them off!” I screamed. “Please…I will give you your son…!”
But Jack Turner just stood there and watched—and laughed. “Feed on her,” he commanded; “like you feed on the flesh of rats…!”
Native American Christian convert Dina Youngblood is deeply in love with strikingly handsome and staunch Traditionalist Marty Osceola.
But he was reared by the reservation’s most feared witch; and even though Marty denies any witchcraft, he spurns Christianity (“That is the white man’s religion!” ) so their love is forbidden.
Furthermore, Dina suspects that Jack Turner—and perhaps Marty also--know why her mother has disappeared. When she discovers the truth, it plunges her into a nightmare more terrifying than she ever imagined.
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Then Aaron Burning Rain, an amiable evangelist, comes to the reservation preaching The Jesus Way; and the chaste, older widower is smitten with Dina.
She finds Aaron attractive too, and his stability comforting; but even though frightening events mark each time that she and Marty are together, Dina is somehow unable to break away from him.
Her father figure Uncle, Donnie Jumper, is horrified by the turbulent on-again-off-again relationship (“That boy has medicine—that is why you cannot break away!”).
Marty pressures her to make a choice; but is her faith strong enough to break away and commit to Aaron and The Jesus Way--or will Marty’s shadowy enchantment draw her in?
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Finalist in Mystery & Suspense
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About the Author
Author K.B. Schaller
Author's cat, Chief--the prototype for Gray Rainbow Journey's "Eddie Was."
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K.B. Schaller wrote her first short story as a school girl—and developed a forever love for the written word.
A member of the Native Christian church and an independent journalist, the Master’s Degree public school teacher of Cherokee/Seminole heritage (who once taught in a tiny reservation Christian academy) writes primarily for Native publications.
But it was Schaller’s unrelenting desire “to create Indian characters caught between the opposing worlds of Tradition and Christian tenets” that impelled her to pen Gray Rainbow Journey.
She wove some of the terrifying tales she heard as a girl into her first-person story--and OakTara awarded her a contract. “Passionately involved” in several Indian causes, Schaller also collects Bibles (“preferably old and frayed”), and is a painter and a poet.
She lives in South Florida with her husband Jim, a design engineer. They have a blended family of four children and three cats.
"Chief," a rescued stray from the Seminole Reservation, is a prototype for “Eddie Was”, the feline interest in her novel. She is currently completing a sequel and plans a third in the Journey series.
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