DreamRovers: Walker Filmasa

 

DreamRovers has three point of view characters. You met 15-year-old Norma and her farm animals last month. She appears on the cover of book 2, Trail of Decision. Indra Filshira opens the first book and is on the cover.  The third point of view is Walker Filmasa. He's the first male point of view I've written. His character was originally inspired by the Wild West figure Porter Rockwell, though Walker's character changed and developed along with the story. His journey to accept his place in a family and to forgive himself was a deeply personal one to write--although I'm sure he'd rather I discuss his wilderness survival skills. Walker has had a hard life and fans are eager to see if he gets a happy ending.

Sneak Peak:

Walker’s boots crunched through layers of snow. Cold bit his nose and the few inches of his face not protected by his beard. Meat that had been a rabbit hung from one hand, cleaned and ready. Out of habit, his unhurried tread took him from cover to cover—behind a boulder, a stand of small pines, a ridge of earth.  His latest camp appeared, a simple shelter of heaped snow. A circle of blackened earth showed where he’d banked the coals of yesterday’s fire. The dry wood to start it again lay hidden under a camouflaged roof between two scrub oak trees. He scanned the camp twice until he was certain that no one else had been here, and then eased into the open.  A rooster emerged from the dark entrance of the snow cave. His feathers bounced comically as he ran. Walker couldn’t suppress a smile. Robbie probably only cared about the handful of grain in Walker’s pocket, but the attention was still flattering. The old scars that marked him as a fighting bird, before Walker had rescued him, were now covered by thick golden feathers, and his beady eyes were bright.  Keep reading the rest of the first chapter here.