Title: Destiny's Choices Author: Regina Paul Publisher: Amira Press Genre: Mystery/Suspense Publication date:April 2007 ISBN:978-1-934475-06-5 Pages: 44 Series: Heat Level: Rating:

Tiana Slickpoo, a native Nez Perce, owns an art gallery-which does not sell objects sacred to the tribe-and is in training as a healer, taught by her grandmother. A sudden rash of burglaries, at the museum and her store, puzzle the Bureau of Indian Affairs police and result in the FBI's inclusion into the investigation. Next her family's cabin is trashed, and her grandmother tortured and brutally beaten, putting her into a coma. In the  meantime, private investigator and former FBI agent James Waters reappears on the scene.

Six years ago, James and Tiana had been in love, and had been lovers, twice only. But James wanted to see the bigger world, and went off to college and later the FBI. Tiana closed her heart against him, without telling him why she couldn't leave the reservation: Tiana, by her matriarchal lineage, is a chosen carrier of a Nez Perce sacred object. Now that James has returned, wiser, he wants to marry Tiana; but will she listen to the guidance of the Spirit Guides or cling to belief in what she considered his betrayal?

Destiny's Choices is a well-written and compelling look into both sacred Native American Spirituality, and the heart-linkage between a woman and a man when both  follow a calling they consider higher than love and lust. Surprising plot twists will have the reader on the edge of the seat, as Regina Paul spins a magically supsenseful and intriguing tale.