Silhouette Special 1039: Meggie's Baby

It is so much more enlightening to understand the Navajo way of life and get rid of the idea we were here in America with extra rights. In #1 of the "Family Blessings" series is ONE OF OUR OWN. #2 of "Family Blessings" is MEGGIE'S BABY. In #1 we met Lucas Singer and Sloan Baron - She was raising Patrick and Meggie Baron and had come from North Carolina to the Rez for her brother's son, Will born of a Navajo woman. Now Meggie has gotten older [not exactly smarter] and is pregnant and has returned to the Rez to be near her family, Lucas and Sloan Singer and her half-brother, Will, now about 17. Jack Begaye had left several years ago to prevent Meggie from giving up on her dreams of college. He joined the Marines. Loved the interchange between him and Winston Tsosie, an ex-marine and Navajo code-talker. Winston becomes Jack's mentor. Meggie has chosen to hide from her problems and inadvertantly drags Jack into a bit of chaos because of her baby's grandparents. Even so she agrees to marry Jack whom she has loved since first coming to the Rez. No one trusted Jack to settle down and be responsible after his wild past and it takes Lucas and his sister Lillian to help clear up his problems. Though Lucas still does not trust Jack to stay with Meg. We meet Winston [great guy] Will and his friend? Eddie Nez - Dolly Singer who helps both Jack and Meg. And Chief John Becenti, Lucas's superior, and learn that his wife, Mae is ill. What a great story - a lot of emotional angst - a bit of confusion brought about by Coyote, Earth's mischief-maker, according to Jack. What a state of depression! DEFINITELY RECOMMEND - I truly like this series. What do you think? #3 is Mother To Be with Lillian Singer and Johnny Becente #4 is Tenderly with Ben Toomey

Here we are, back on the rez. The books in this series weave a spell: those oh-so American Navajo men, like Jack in this story, hogan-raised and wild, likes to line dance in country-western bars with hot chicks like Angelina. But he's always been a sucker for Meggie, the white girl who's more Navajo at heart than he is. She's too good for him, he thinks. Until she needs him, and then there he is; even though he knows (and her family knows) he's just bad news, had no relatives to teach him. The characters in this series are fascinating, I wish Reavis would have continued on and on to make more of these Navajo/non-Navaho love stories. The most interesting part is seeing how the Navaho males are so hip to ordinary American stuff, part of us, really, and yet they have this extra dimension, an alternate culture where they won't name dead people, do and don't celebrate Christmas, have a tribal police force where the cops act and talk like most other American cops, or American cops in romances, anyway. "One of Our Own," "Tenderly," "Meggie's Baby," "Mother to Be." Are there any more I don't know about? What a series! Heroes who are ordinary guys, not billionaires. And they get off some funny, wise guy lines, too.