Tapped: Book Three of the Pipe Woman Chronicles
by Lynne Cantwell
Genre of this Book: urban fantasy/paranormal romance
Word count: 57,362
Ah, winter in South Dakota…
Naomi Witherspoon, chosen by a Lakota Indian goddess to mediate a truce in heaven, is in the midst of a number of down-to-earth problems. She hasn’t heard from her boyfriend, Joseph, in weeks. She has also been attacked recently by a man channeling an Aztec jaguar god. Her best friend Shannon thinks she ought to get out of town for awhile – but what Shannon proposes is a road trip to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to track down Naomi’s father, who doesn’t know she exists. Naomi agrees to go, but the additional stress literally makes her sick.
Their search is complicated by a surly teenager; a mysterious walled compound that may or may not belong to Loki, the Norse Trickster; and a blizzard or two. And why, to top it off, is Naomi dreaming of a wolf? As she tells Shannon, the way the woo-woo usually works, she figures the two of them are about to find out.
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Lynne, how did you come up with the title for your book? Does it have any special meaning?
This one was the hardest of the series. I spent a lot of quality with a thesaurus before I settled on Tapped. But it fits. Naomi is tapping into the side of her family she didn’t know existed – and in a subplot, someone is draining the Ogallala Aquifer.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Hands down, it’s Naomi’s father. He lives in a cabin in the middle of nowhere, he has a complicated history, and he’s very funny.
Does your book have any underlying theme, message, or moral?
It’s urban fantasy, so it’s supposed to be entertaining. But almost the whole book takes place on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where I think the living conditions are even worse than I’ve depicted in the book.
What would/could a reader or reviewer say about this book that shows they “get” you as an author?
I’d like to hear them say the book was well-written with fun characters, that it answered some questions while hooking them for the next book, and that I didn’t mess up the Native American stuff too badly.
Give us an excerpted quote from your favorite review of this book:
I am inexplicably drawn to Native American stories and wolves. This story has both and so much more.
Where can people learn more about your writing?
http://hearth-myth.blogspot.com
