Sam is a girl growing up with a spirit guide, Kevin the Rat. In A Rat’s Tail, she and Kevin travelled in a separate reality, another life. But in Blood Brothers, her second sortie into the book of possibilities, she has not only skipped tracks but has also switched genders. Sucked into a life in North America in the 1800’s she finds herself in a past life regression, when white pioneers traversed the domain of the red man, exciting, challenging and hauntingly familiar.
Beyond the fantasy perimeters of her first adventure she now faces issues that are very real. As a Native American youth she meets a Bluecoat commander and through a telepathic understanding learns she must flee, with her mother and sister, across the plains to the rivers divide and there, led by a familiar spirit, abandon her old life for the forests where her mother grew up.
On her own vision quest she discovers the real meaning of brotherhood and when the Bluecoat re-enters their lives their union is sealed. As a family they move to join an itinerant forest tribe and she meets her phantom, the soul brother who led them across the big water, and a lifetime bond is forged. But dissent and destruction await her new family and Sam must return, taking with her the ongoing search. Wolves, cougars, men, boys, creeds and races, past and future, the spirit of brotherhood links them all. With Kevin to guide, Sam looks through her past eyes, seeing more but understanding less, except that where that link is broken harm ensues.
The strands of her previous journey are woven into this new reality like threads of a tapestry. The issues now are very real and so is the pain. Kevin is there but she is often left alone to practice and test the validity of the understandings she learnt then. But the path is not so clear, nor the choices so well defined and the ambivalence of her feelings is reflected in the life she is experiencing.
Can we ever return to a state of simplicity when we have known complexity of modern life?
Can we choose what we want, leave the rest and be content? Must we embrace the whole or leave everything?
Is there a place on earth where we belong and to which we can return, if we choose, when we choose?
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