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Capturing the Texas Rancher's Heart

Kensington
April 2018
On Sale: April 18, 2018
Featuring: Harry Muskrat; Stewart Mitchell; Alma Mitchell
316 pages
ISBN: 1496713664
EAN: 9781496713667
Kindle: B074DH9537
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BETWEEN EARTH AND SKY

Amanda Skenandore

Amanda Skenandore
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In Amanda Skenandore’s provocative and profoundly moving debut, set in the tragic intersection between white and Native American culture, a young girl learns about friendship, betrayal, and the sacrifices made in the name of belonging.

On a quiet Philadelphia morning in 1906, a newspaper
headline catapults Alma Mitchell back to her past. A federal
agent is dead, and the murder suspect is Alma’s childhood
friend, Harry Muskrat. Harry—or Asku, as Alma knew him—was
the most promising student at the “savage-taming” boarding
school run by her father, where Alma was the only white
pupil. Created in the wake of the Indian Wars, the Stover
School was intended to assimilate the children of
neighboring reservations. Instead, it robbed them of
everything they’d known—language, customs, even their
names—and left a heartbreaking legacy in its wake.

The bright, courageous boy Alma knew could never have
murdered anyone. But she barely recognizes the man Asku has
become, cold and embittered at being an outcast in the white
world and a ghost in his own. Her lawyer husband, Stewart,
reluctantly agrees to help defend Asku for Alma’s sake. To
do so, Alma must revisit the painful secrets she has kept
hidden from everyone—especially Stewart.

Told in compelling narratives that alternate between Alma’s childhood and her present life, Between Earth and Sky is a haunting and complex story of love and loss, as a quest for justice becomes a journey toward understanding and, ultimately, atonement.