Unbeknown to Dawn, her grandfather has shot an old
swan out of mercy. In their coastal
Alaskan town, her father buys the swan pelt, preventing her Uncle Alex, a fur
trader, from selling it for export. Dawn’s father surprises her part-Aleut
mother with a hat she helped to make and also with an idea to catch poachers.
Shooting swans has become illegal but Alaska is a territory and Prohibition
occupies the Sheriff. Dawn and her
mother become involved with the suspicious effects of the swan bonnet besides
its haunting effect. Because Dawn’s
grandparents see the swans first, Dawn agrees to secretly watch the migration
with the deputy sheriff’s son. But after
she and her mother encounter women from a ship and find out about a hunting
party, they ride to the inlet. There are townspeople roving the shore too but
who is the vigilante and who is the poacher?
About the Author:
Katherine L. Holmes’ first published book was The
House in Windward Leaves, an MG fantasy which became an E-book Finalist in the 2013 New
Generation Indie Book Awards and a Juvenile Fiction Finalist in the National
Indie Excellence Book Awards. Also, she won Prize Americana for her short story
collection, Curiosity Killed the Sphinx and Other Stories, published by
Hollywood Books International. In April
2013, The Wide Awake Loons was released by Silver Knight
Publishing. The Swan Bonnet, a historical novel, will be published
in July, 2013, by GMTA Publishing.
Katherine has worked with used and rare books in the last years. She lives in Duluth, Minnesota.
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