Ninaanibaa’s heart belonged to Hashke Yil Naabahh (The Warrior Who Fights with Anger). She loved him for protecting his awee (love), Ke’ (family), Nabeeho (people) and Dinetah (land). Hashke Yil Naabahh is summoned on a pursuit to restore peace and harmony to Dinetah. Ninaanibaa’ gently placed her hand over her heart and wondered if her own heart was prepared to never feel love again. She stopped to think about life without love, the kind of love that her husband showered upon her. Leaving their sacred land was a painful decision forced upon them but Hash ke Yil Naabah and Ninaanibaa always relied on their love, prayers, and kinship in overcoming hardship, loneliness, and suffering. Will they escape the shackles of war and reunite within their four sacred mountains of Dinetah?

“My Navajo world was wonderful!” says Evangeline Parsons Yazzie. Her father taught her about Navajo culture, language, and history; and she enjoyed many hours of storytelling. Her parents were the first teachers and she remembers her father’s saying about learning the Navajo language of “speaking from the heart.” With many stories she gathered from her father, an idea of writing entered her mind and she began to write her first historical romance book about a strong, beautiful young woman displaying her affectionate relationship with her husband in the midst of warfare between the Navajo and United States.

Evangeline lives in the northern Arizona with her family. As the youngest child, she comes from a large family of five brothers and no sisters.