Welcome to my first post for Muse Monday. It’s a chance for a character who inspires me to guest on the blog. Today we have Collin Bird, the muscle-car-loving, cinnamon roll hero from She Talks to Eagles. Check out what Collin has to say.
Hello, my name is Collin Bird. I’m Ojibway and hail from a First Nations community in Northwestern Ontario, right on the boundary waters. When my author asked me if I’d guest for her first edition of Muse Monday, I said yes. I’m always happy to help someone out. It’s just my nature. I guess it’s that nature which led me to help out Rosemary Kakeway, a girl from my reserve who went missing over forty years ago while attending a powwow outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Y’know, I’m always getting myself into all kinds of fixes because of the people I help. It doesn’t matter if it’s a sad girl when I attended university or one of my buddies. So I shouldn’t have been surprised when my dream vacation touring the U.S.A.’s Route 66 for a graduation present from my parents turned my life into something I’d never imagined possible.
I mean, I’ve never believed in the supernatural, much less time travel (don’t get me wrong, I do carry a medicine bundle). But that’s Rosemary for you. She not only drew me into her world as a kid when I’d stare at her picture on the mantel at her older sister’s place, but she showed up on my vacation.
She’s everything that I’m not—a risk-taker, free-spirited, bold, and fun. A true breath of fresh air in a place that’s polluted with choking smog. I find, though, that it’s your opposite who teaches you how to truly live.
I like to think of us as peanut butter and jam. You can’t have one without the other on a sandwich. So of course I became deeply involved in her plight. Fine, I also couldn’t help but want to be near her. It goes back to her picture at her sister’s house. I swore it was calling to me. She became the girl I couldn’t have but I wished I could have met.
And in She Talks to Eagles, I got to meet her…
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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.
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Time Travel Romance, First Nations Romance, Contemporary Romance
Heat Rating: Level 2
Publication Date: September 6, 2024
Publisher: eXtasy Books
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Maggie Blackbird 