Behind the Storm

Behind the Storm Running from calamity, three young ranchers breach Native American ground and awaken to a past world — the legendary Hidatsa tribe amid looming disaster — ranchers and Natives completely unaware of their own peril. This two time-frame historical thriller explores the dreams and beliefs (magical realism) of a storied culture, challenging your perception of native life. It’s a love story, a mystery, a tale of loss and resiliency and bittersweet memories. September 1939 Sarah grew up in Jake and Charlie’s shadow: three lives intimately tangled until youthful loyalties shaped adulthood flaws. One secret led to another, which naturally encouraged a third. Now the most important secrets are those they keep from themselves. At dawn, three carefully choreographed lies will destroy their souls forever, but for now, a campfire smolders, the only one in thirty miles. It seems that tonight’s storm finally passed, along with any time for second thoughts. Ah, but nothing is ever as it seems in the Badlands. Late in the night, a desperate girl finds them quite by accident. Her predicament — indeed the future of the entire Hidatsa tribe — overshadows this little human drama huddled by a campfire. The Hidatsa struggle in a rapidly changing world, where things they believe no longer matter. The girl lives on hope, but she’s jaded. She also recognizes a lie when she sees one.