Witch of the Palo Duro

by Mardi Oakley Medawar

Overview

"Another great storyteller is emerging."—Tony Hillerman

Award-winning author - Mardi Oakley Medawar

In 1866 the Kiowas return to their traditional winter camp at Palo Duro Canyon for the first time in two years. But when a powerful healer winds up missing and two horses are found killed, the camp is convinced it is the work of a shapeshifter...While the camp searches for the witch among them, Tay-bodal begins his own investigation. Anxious to find his missing friend and sure that there is no supernatural cause behind these events, Tay-bodal must uncover the truth before fear destroys the bonds that unite the Kiowa Band....

"Medawar really captives the personalities of the individuals in her story, as well as the culture itself, with understanding and low-key Indian humor. She does for the Kiowa culture what Tony Hillerman has done for the Navaho."—Don Coldsmith, author of Tallgrass and the Spanish Bit saga

"Medawar, a Cherokee, reveals legendary Native Americans as believable people and offers her readers a comprehensive look at historical Kiowa life and values."—Publishers Weekly

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162747055
Publisher:	Speaking Volumes
Publication date:	04/17/2020
Series:	Tay-Bodal , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Mardi Oakley Medawar is the daughter of an Eastern Band Cherokee father and Louisiana French mother. Her first novel, The Glory Days of Buffalo Egbert, published under the title, People of The Whistling Waters, was written for her father while he was undergoing treatments for cancer. Her father enjoyed reading but didn’t care much for historical fiction because he didn’t like the way Indian people were portrayed. Mardi decided to write a book for him, handing him a new chapter after each treatment. He lived long enough to finish the final chapter and then challenged Mardi to have the book published. It took four years to keep that promise. At the awards banquet, when the novel won Best First Novel of the Year from Western Writers of America, Mardi accepted the award in the name of her father, Walter Allen Oakley.

She went on to write seven more novels she was certain her father would have loved reading. As both a musician and an artist, Mardi Oakley Medawar lives and works in the Carolinas.