Bold passionate and more urgent than ever Debra Magpie Earlings powerful classic novel is reborn in this new edition.On the Flathead Indian Reservation summer is ending and Louise White Elk is determined to forge her own path. Raised by her Grandmother Magpie after the death of her mother Louise and her younger sister have grown up into the harsh social and physical landscape of western Montana in the 1940s where Native people endure boarding schools and life far from home. As she approaches adulthood Louise hopes to create an independent life for herself and an improved future for her familybut three persistent men have other plans.Since childhood Louise has been pursued by Baptiste Yellow Knife feared not only for his roughandtumble ways but also for the preternatural gifts of his bloodline.