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I'm excited to announce that I have a new book coming out next month! It's the third of my Navajo Code Talker series that began with I'll Be Seeing You and continued with Watch Over Me. Keeping up with the title theme of songs that were popular in the 1940's, Book #3 is a song that my mom once told me was her and my dad's favorite: All of Me.
All of Me is set in the summer of 1943, just after the first class of Navajo Code Talkers has been sent overseas to the Pacific. Our hero Luke Kayenta is still stateside in Arizona, training and recruiting more possible candidates for this important work that helped the United States win the war.
It's now New Yorker Kitty Charente's turn to be a fish out of water as she comes to join Luke and meet his family. But Nazi agent Helmut Adler has arrived too, to try to throw the Code Talker program into chaos.
The threesome....
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| Book 1: Spain 1942 |
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| Book 2: New York City 1942 |
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| Big Jock McCluskey |
Big Jock McCluskey
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story Luke's grandmother Anaba Bowman tells is about the Hudson’s Bay Scottish trader lost in a storm. It's based on the life of Big Jock McCluskey, who traded machine
loom blankets and shirts woven in the colors of Rob Roy tartan of the Clan
MacGregor. McCluskey family stories claim that the Native Americans loved the red-black
cloth and called it Buffalo Plaid. It became a quintessential symbol of the American West. I had fun thinking of Big Jock losing his
way in a Northern Arizona winter and finding the Navajo, who had been weaving
their own wool for centuries! Luke’s long-ago grandmother politely traded one of her textiles for his, and so it became a family heirloom. It appears in All of Me’s
story as well as its wonderful cover.
Next month I'll include a sneak peek at my new novel. Thank you for being readers of the series!
Can't wait to read another of your great stories.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a wonderful story. Thanks for sharing.
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