Ashley Finn Williams

Finding Ayohka Ashley Finn Williams

After masked bandits attack her family farm in the summer of 1833, young mestiza Brooke O'Brennan flees alone into the moonlit wilderness and begins an incredible journey of self-realization that will lead to a new home and a new sense of identity. Unable to live with the pain of losing her family she seeks a miraculous way to forget who she once was. But for how long can the freshly named Ayohka Askuwheayasha live with the haunting spectre of memories lost? A highly emotional weird-west style coming of age set in a fantastical world filled to the brim with cryptid creatures and ancient legends, this book is a story about familial love, striving for a seemingly impossible unity between disparate sides, the futility of trying to escape your problems through miraculous means, and acceptance of who you are despite your flaws or where you come from. An overall message of optimism and hope carries through even the darkest of moments of this wending journey which takes the reader through a slow burn of emotional highs and lows before reaching an explosive, action-packed crescendo. (Features a glossary at the back of the book that acts as a pronunciation guide and provides extra story detail for nearly two-hundred entries!)