Claire of the Shifting Winds
Regina’s debut historical novel:
Coming November 30 in 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 her mission reaches far beyond conversion. Hidden beneath it is a dangerous political ambition—to forge an alliance between the Comanche and the French and help create a new French province carved from conquered Spanish territory.
Her journey carries 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 nothing is as she expected. She meets Cuerno Verde, the war chief who haunts Spanish nightmares, and is taken in by his mother when she has no place else to go. Caught between worlds, Claire struggles to determine who is right and who is wrong. Then the new governor of New Mexico becomes determined to hunt and kill Cuerno Verde. When the guns finally fall silent at the foot of a mountain, destiny appears to change direction—and 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 historical adventure with a spiritual heart—a story of what happens when everything we believe about the world and ourselves is pressed upon and tested until its very foundation collapses—and what, if anything, remains when it does.