Secret Shadows
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Dane White Eagle is an undercover FBI agent, searching for the drug dealers who have been poisoning the residents of the Cold Creek Lakota Reservation with designer narcotics. Dr. Claire Colby works te graveyard emergency shift at the hospital, patching up the walking wounded who appear night after night. When tragedy brings them together, they realize they share a dedication to their work -- to making life better for those on the reservation.
But since the fateful night of their meeting, Dane and Claire share other things as well -- like strange dreams of the legendary trickster spirit, Iktomi. And a growing passion for each other that intertwines thier souls and hearts -- and may lead them into mortal danger...
Reviews and Comments for Secret Shadows
Romantic Times Nominee - Best Contemporary, 2004
The culture and beliefs of the Lakota people play a significant and influential role in Aitken's mesmerizing novel. Having to keep so many secrets from those he loves places a great burden on Dane White Eagle. Choices made and justice sought make this extremely powerful reading.
~ Jill M. Smith, Reviewer
from Blether Book Review
Exhilarating Native American police procedural romance!
~ Harriet Klausner
Judie Aitken is an expert in Native American lore and tradition. Characters and scenes are painted in vivid colors. Beautiful imagery flows throughout this book and is contrasted to the ragged, not so pretty brush strokes of present day life on the Reservation. you will come away from this book a little more knowledgeable, a little more aware of what it means to be a Native American now and in the past. Along with a great suspense story full of twists and turns, this is also a heartwarming story of love, faith and the meaning of family. Somehow, Judie Aitken has managed to incorporate all of this in one not to be missed book. Make room on your keeper shelf.
~ Nancy E. Gibson, Word Museum
Excerpt
An excerpt from Chapter 19...
They crossed the ridge behind Clement’s cabin and descended the steep grade on the other side. At the bottom of the hill, emptiness spread out all around them. Claire had never seen anything like it in her life. The wide expanse of land, undisturbed by buildings or anything touched by man, left her breathless. The wind, blowing across the prairie, set the tall grass into a strange, undulating movement, creating ripples like waves on the ocean.
“Look.” Dane stopped his horse and pointed toward the sky. “Eagles.”
Reining her horse to a stop beside him, Claire looked up. High overhead, two large birds rode the currents, gliding with their wings outspread, swirling around one another in an aerial ballet. As though bored with their graceful dance, the eagles turned, plunged toward one another, and seemed to collide in midair. Locked together, talon to talon, the birds plummeted toward the ground.
Claire gasped, watching in awe as mere moments before crashing into the ground, the birds separated and climbed high into the sky and began their dangerous aerobatics once again.
“Why...why do they do that?” she asked, her voice breathless with wonder. “That is...unbelievable.”
“They’re a mating pair,” Dane replied. “Eagles mate for life. It’s quite a sight, isn’t it?”
“Oh, yes. But why do the hold onto each other until they almost hit the ground?”
He removed his sunglasses and looked at her. “Trust. It’s all about trust. Loving someone, wanting to be with that someone for a lifetime, and staying with that someone...it’s all about trust.”
Caught in his gaze, she couldn’t turn away, not even when she heard the shrill call of the eagles as they soared overhead. Finally she found her voice but could only whisper her answer. “Yes, it is...all about trust.”
The air around them seemed to be charged with electricity as they stared at one another. Neither spoke, neither moved. The only sounds were the calls of the pair of eagles in the sky.
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