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WOLFSHE
In 1700, a great wave sinks entire islands in the Puget Sound, leaving a three-year-old indigenous girl the sole survivor. A medicine woman on a distant island, Ama, finds and raises the child as WolfShe and trains her in healing arts.
WolfShe grows into a powerful medicine woman, one haunted by the loss of her family. Not knowing her totem, she fears no ancestors will greet her at the gate to the Land of Mists when she dies. Without their help she could be forever lost in the Land of Shadow Fog.
Pale Face, an invader and trapper, hunts WolfShe and her wolf. But he carries a more terrible threat than his knife, a disease that kills. In trying to escape him, WolfShe discovers her fate as a healer and her true totem.
RAJASTHAN SUITE MEMORY
An American couple arrives at the luxury Lake Palace Hotel in India for a second honeymoon. Their five-day stay will change their lives forever.
RAJASTHAN SUITE MEMORY, set in present time and in 1600s Rajasthan, is a combination of adventure, romance, a fight against tyranny – and a look at life for women in a royal palace in the 1600s.
The characters glide smoothly from their contemporary life to their earlier life – intertwining what happened then with what they have to undergo today. Convincing story-telling that keeps you on the edge of your seat!
Part history, part fiction, RAJASTHAN SUITE MEMORY is vivid, memorable and informative.
Salt River Publishing – A Beyond Borders Book
CLOSED EYES SMILING
The story Closed Eyes Smiling by Dyan Dubois takes place at the Tibetan Refugee Center in the Himalayan mountains of India and appears in Steeped in the World of Tea, a collection of stories by diverse authors that celebrates tea as a metaphor for life in all its complexity and beauty. (Interlink Publishers, 2005, available through Amazon.
In May of 2001 I visited the Tibetan Refugee Center in Darjeeling, India, after having driven down from Bhutan.
Darjeeling houses The Tibetan Refugee. Once free and roaming the wilds of Tibet, these people now cluster together eking out survival, primarily from their craft sales.
His Highness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959, barely escaping Chinese soldiers, with his small group of exiles. Over the years, thousands more followed.
My aim in Closed Eyes Smiling is to convey the quiet grace of the old painter I watched at the Refugee Center and to rewrite the script, so in some way compassion can win out, metaphorically, with the young Chinese American woman and the old man touching on what is real in life, forgiveness and understanding.