Maskwa

          In a near-future America where dust storms rage and water is scarce, Alaska Rainmaker rides the wasteland as a bounty hunter, tracking down criminals with her motorcycle and lasso. Part Cree, part Welsh, and wholly determined, she lives with seizures that bring visions of her ancestors  –  and the night her mother was murdered twenty years ago.

When bodies start appearing with crosses carved into their foreheads, Alaska reluctantly partners with her estranged father, Detective Jake Morse, to hunt the Copycat Killer. This serial murderer wears masks modeled after history's most notorious killers while targeting seemingly random victims. As the investigation deepens, Alaska and Jake work to uncover the connection between the murderer, the victims, and the mysterious death of her mother.

But the true horror runs deeper than human evil. Alaska must confront the Wetiko  –  an ancient Indigenous entity that possesses the spiritually wounded, transforming them into cannibalistic and narcissistic humans that feed on the innocent. Armed with her grandmother's teachings about bear medicine and guided by the spirits of Amazon river dolphins, Alaska transforms from a modern bounty hunter into a traditional medicine woman.

Meanwhile, her father's android partner, Ama, dreams of American citizenship and road trips. Climate activist Rachel Lamont broadcasts the truth through underground podcasts, and the mysterious Gemini Moon—a blue-skinned healer with six passports — works to heal trauma survivors, preventing further injury from Wetiko-possessed humans and society. Her motto is «Grow through what you go through.”

“Maskwa” weaves together multiple genres  –  Indigenous spirituality meets cyberpunk technology, hard-boiled detective work collides with shamanic vision quests, and climate fiction merges with supernatural horror. The novel explores themes of generational trauma, the ongoing impacts of colonization, environmental collapse, and the power of Indigenous wisdom to heal both personal and planetary wounds.

Set against a backdrop of dust storms and digital surveillance, protest movements, and ancient prophecies, “Maskwa” tells the story of a mixed-blood woman who must embrace her full heritage, including her lightning spirit and personal trauma that causes her seizures, as well as the bear medicine that makes her a healer. Her grandmother advises her that to defeat an evil that has been feeding on North America since the first colonizers arrived, you must face it “from your scar, not your wound, and it can only destroy, if it can distract you.”

This is Indigenous futurism at its most visceral: a vision of what it means to be a rainbow warrior in the twilight of empire, where the old ways and new technologies merge in the fight for survival and justice.