ThunderCloud The Oddities of a Young Man's Journey to Manhood

Through the adventurous challenges of ThunderCloud, a teenage Cherokee excommunicated from his Principal People, we learn how taking or ignoring responsibility for our actions determines our conditions in life as well as our fate. Left to fend for himself in a world full of strangers, ThunderCloud is befriended by an Amish clan whose work ethic rubs off on him. He eventually realizes that he must return home to make amends for events and consequences he caused earlier.

ThunderCloud's journey home brings him face-to-face with inner demons and outer circumstances where lives hang in the balance of decisions he must make, bringing him to his complete manhood. He arrives home with a motley entourage that includes a runaway Amish boy, a group of youthful renegades whose lives he saved under duress, and the woman he vows to marry one day!

This is the first of a planned series aimed at the same age grouping as ThunderCloud's age. Followers will grow along with him, learning different spiritual and practical facts of life along the way. None of us can sidestep successfully responsibilities that come our way - this is the intended takeaway for readers who will identify with ThunderCloud. His identity as a Cherokee is deliberate and pays homage to the spiritual heritage that is the Native American way.