title: Dark Desert
author: Black, Savannah
description: Jill had been raised by a mean vindictive mother who told her as a young child that her father had been killed in Vietnam. “He was a drug addict and good riddance. He left me before you were born to go fight in that stupid war. I hated him for that.”
  After receiving her father’s meager belongings from the sheriff of Goldtown Nevada, she buys a Jeep and goes there to discover who her father was. Two weeks after moving into her new house, situated miles out in the desert, strange things begin to happen. Soon she meets Matt, a Native American who with his quiet easy manor soon sweeps her off her feet. The only problem is that Coyote, Matt's evil brother has already claimed her to be his Little Night bird.
  Matt is a shaman and has always followed the sun while Coyote has turned to the night and evil. Matt vows he will protect her, but Coyote only laughs and walks away. His magic is strong. It is rumored he is a shape shifter and can turn into the coyote, his totem animal.
  He was lost in the desert as a five year old child for many days and walked out of it, healthy but covered in blood. When asked how he survived he would only say, “The old one helped me. He taught me many things. ” When asked what kind of things he would only say, “The ways of the coyote.”  As he grew up he grew mean. Little girls of the tribe were raped and when asked who did it they would say, “A coyote.”
  Jill finds herself in a fight for her sanity and her very soul and Matt is the only one who can save her.