Yé'iitsoh Omen

Yéiitsoh Omen is the second book in an adventure romance series I call The Adventures of Katie Reynolds, a loose collection of stories revolving around two veterinarians. Rory and Katie fell in love with each other during veterinary school, which wasn’t smooth sailing because she is a Navajo Indian and he is a plain old white guy. The first book, K’aalógii, My Butterfly Boy articulates both difficulties and successes as she tries to make her way in a white man’s world, and he tries to forge his own practice.
In Yéiitsoh Omen Katie returns to her native reservation as a new veterinarian where evil spirits, both Ute and Navajo are on a tirade to push her back out. The opening chapters introduce the reader to the ruggedness and desolation of these lands. Defeated both by the evil of man; her Ute friend Pelipa has just been raped, as well as the evil spirits haunting parts of the reservation, she abandons her quest to stay to help her own.
Temporarily defeated she joins Rory at his veterinary practice in California where he shows her the beauty of the paradise he has stumbled onto. He reopens an old veterinary clinic to entice her to settle in with him. Along with Katie, the reader is immersed in the history, customs, and diverse geography of the central California coastal area, the place Rory wants to live.
Rory proposes to her hoping the promise of marriage will plug the gap she feels.
Although Katie finds solace in her retreat into Rory’s comfortable place, she remains driven, unable to shake the call to return to learning, certain she can help her people if only she knew more. But she is falling deeply in love with Rory, and needs to find a balance between her desires and his future wishes.
Katie is pushed even quicker back into academia when a mysterious disease causes a cougar to attack her friend Paula. The episode strengthens an old friendship she developed with Dr. Prasad, a veterinary epidemiologist, who urges her to return to school.