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Your past is your history. Your ancestors, your predecessors.

How did their lives impact your own? Are you on your own path or does fate play a hand?

Rock Neelly tackles these questions in a rollicking novel that bounces between the rough and rowdy settling of Oklahoma’s Cherokee Strip and the turbulent times of Lawrence, Kansas during the 1960’s civil rights unrest.

One family, two eons—1893 and 1963— connected through time. Fate’s fortune will force a family to confront its past in a chain of events, seemingly inevitable, and yet shocking in its unpredictability.

You can’t pick your family. Can you pick your fate?

©2022 Rock Neelly (P)2024 Rock Neelly

Great reading of a challenging story told in two timelines

A western and a 1970s coming of age story artfully narrated by Owen Black. The author starts with the Oklahoma land rush, then jumps to a child whose family is fracturing in the 1960s. Black keeps everything clear as the chapters alternate time, setting, and characters. Black's deep voice is particularly suited to the Oklahoma ranch story, and gave me chills at the final wrap up.