Once a Father

Logan Wolf Track has written the book on his unique Indian method of Natural Horsemanship. He knows horses, and he knows people. When Mary Tutan returns to town on leave from her career job with the Army, Logan can see immediately she has what it takes to train horses with the calm, slow, natural approach he espouses. Both Logan and Mary want to enter the "Mustang Sally Makeover Challenge," a benefit competition between horse trainers to raise money for South Dakota's Double D Wild Horse Sanctuary. Logan, however, isn't eligible since he's on the Lakota Tribal Council which leases land to the sanctuary, and Mary is a gifted dog-but-not-horse trainer. Only together are they allowed to compete in the contest to break and train a mustang, in hopes of proving to the government and to area ranch owners that wild horses are valuable assets to the land. But Mary is a white woman with a father who views Indian lands as his and Indian men as potential hired hands. Logan is an Indian cowboy with too much love for the land and its animals to play games with angry ranchers. A burgeoning love between the two should be like an affair between the Capulets and Montagues or the Hatfields and the McCoys. Only it isn't. The connection between Logan and Mary is strong and instantaneous. They can handle the union of their respective heritages. But what they may not be able to handle is the discovery Mary makes because of a silly indiscretion before she ever met Logan. Kathleen Eagle has written a modern day saga of life on a South Dakota Lakota Sioux reservation in a tender, beautiful love story between unlikely soulmates. If you crave a sweet-but-sensuous romance between two smart, savvy people you will fall in love with as quickly as they fall for each other, you'll get all you want in this story. And if you love animals--especially horses--you will be touched and impressed by the expertise and obvious love Kathleen Eagle has for the subject. And you'll be sorry when "Once A Father" comes to an end.