All The Write Stuff: She Talks to Eagles

He’s shocked that the beautiful girl in the picture is alive…

She Talks to Eagles

by Maggie Blackbird

Genre: Paranormal Time-Travel Romance

He’s shocked that the beautiful girl in the picture is alive…

Maybe the stories of the notorious Route 66 are true. Road trips don’t result in encountering ghosts, but they do for Collin Bird. When he spies a beautiful girl hitchhiking during a thunderstorm, he can’t believe his eyes. It’s Rosemary, a young woman from his Ojibway community who went missing over forty years ago.

Rosemary Kakeway is dead. Her only hope to reach the spirit world is Collin. Before departing to the place of her ancestors, she seeks vengeance against her killers, and Collin is the man to help her do just that.

A ride with Rosemary through pea-soup fog brings Collin to 1977, where he meets a very much alive nineteen-year-old Rosemary. The bold and wild girl is nothing like he imagined her to be as she introduces him to a time he embraces. Knowing they are meant to be together, neither wishes to say goodbye, but that’s up to Rosemary’s spirit in the twenty-first century to decide.

GUEST POST

: Learning during writing…

I always learn something when I’m writing and researching. Always. For this novel, I had to look deep into the Navajo Nation because I am Ojibway. When Collin and Rosemary are aided by a hataalii, I had to gather tons of information about the Navajo’s culture and beliefs. The most beautiful part of my discovery were the sandpaintings they create.

Sometimes research can lead my down many rabbit holes, which in turn gives me more story ideas. During my deep look into Route 66, I read very briefly about a massacre, but I can’t remember what exactly happened and where about it was. So there we go, more research, because I wouldn’t mind writing a story about it. I love historical romance. It’s my fave genre to read. And I wouldn’t mind doing a time-travel Route 66 again, this time going back into the deep past.

I’m no expert about my own people either. Just because I’m Ojibway doesn’t mean I have all the answers. So talking with others, and also digging deep into books is a big help.

I live in voyageur country, a trade route for the fur traders and voyageurs during the fur trade era. There was even a replica fort constructed I used to play at as a young girl. Learning so much about this area during that time period is awesome.

So yes, I’m always learning. I’m a lifelong student who enjoys non-fiction books as much as I do fiction novels.

EXCERPT

Just as Collin set his fingers on the volume button, the corner of his eye caught the slim silhouette in his right headlight. Someone was out on the road in this mess? A woman?

He let his foot off the gas and downshifted, casting his gaze to the rearview mirror, but only his red taillights appeared.

With the windshield wipers continuing to zoom back and forth, he guided the car to the shoulder, shifted the stick to neutral, and engaged the emergency brake.

A shiver bumped down his spine. He tried to shake off the eeriness crawling along his skin. It wasn’t like a serial killer would lurk about on a stormy night. Way too cliché, something straight out of a horror movie.

He threw open the door and eased from the car, shouting, “Hello?”

The rain pelted his face, so he drew up the hood to his hoodie. Cupping both hands around his mouth, he again shouted, “Hello?”

Insane. There was nobody out here drowning in the rain. He got back inside the vehicle. What he saw… The eeriness on his skin intensified, and his heart boomed louder than the crackling thunder. How could this be? She was missing. Most likely dead. But there she sat in the passenger seat—Rosemary Kakeway, his best friend’s great aunt.

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About the Author

An Ojibway from Northwestern Ontario, Maggie resides in the country with her husband and their fur babies, two beautiful Alaskan Malamutes. When she’s not writing, she can be found pulling weeds in the flower beds, mowing the huge lawn, walking the Mals deep in the bush, teeing up a ball at the golf course, fishing in the boat for walleye, or sitting on the deck at her sister’s house, making more wonderful memories with the people she loves most.

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