Coming November 30—Paperback, Hardcover, and Ebook on Amazon.
Who would you be if who you thought you were was ripped away?
In 1774, eighteen-year-old Claire Delacroix leaves New Orleans certain she knows the difference between truth and falsehood, saint and sinner, civilization and savagery. Morality and obedience are all she has ever trusted. Raised from infancy by a priest, she has spent years preparing to carry religion into the heart of Comanchería, but beneath the mission lies a dangerous political scheme—to forge an alliance between the Comanche and the French and help create a new French province carved from conquered Spanish territory.
Her journey takes her up the Mississippi and Arkansas rivers, into Spanish New Mexico and the homeland of the powerful Comanche Nation—where politics, trade, faith, and survival collide, and every certainty Claire carries is tested.
She meets Cuerno Verde, a war chief who haunts Spanish nightmares, and is taken in by his mother, a woman whose unexpected ways hide a startling clarity. Caught between worlds, Claire struggles to determine who is right and who is wrong. Then the new governor of New Mexico, Juan Bautista de Anza, becomes determined to hunt Cuerno Verde down. When the guns finally fall silent at the foot of a mountain, Claire is left standing in a silence she has no name for, free in a way she never asked to be.
For those who loved Taylor Sheridan’s 1883 or Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha, Claire of the Shifting Winds is a frontier epic with a contemplative heart: a story of what happens when everything we believe about the world and ourselves is pressed until its very foundation collapses—and what, if anything, remains when it does.
