Yellow Jacket

On the pre-Columbian plains of North America live First People, a tribe of scattered and diverse clans. Madoc travels to their Grand City with Kokopelli, a nomadic trader. Kokopelli occupies his time with First People leaders. Bored Madoc explores this strange city on his own. He meets Peta, a young girl, and Coot and Spinge, two boys he feels an immediate connection with. He yearns to fit in here.

Also living on the plains are the Nunnupe. A mysterious tribe of little people rarely seen by anyone. But Madoc has many encounters with the Nunnupe. They confuse him and haunt his dreams. They insist he is their foretelling.

Madoc’s reality toggles between these two worlds. He becomes involved in a Nunnupe dream battle where the foretelling will free the Nunnupe from Hawk Clan oppression.

Madoc’s real-life grandfather urges him to accept that he is the keeper of the yellow jacket spirit, chosen to wear the sacred sculpture. Madoc doesn’t want that responsibility and tells no one, not even his old grandfather that the sacred being visits him.

Madoc’s real-life task is delivering the sacred sculpture to the village of Yellow Jacket. Madoc’s reality merges with the Nunnupe’s on the wind-swept plains, where he battles an evil band of renegades’ intent on stealing First People’s sacred sculpture. The treasure arrives in Yellow Jacket, but nothing is as it seems.

Book #3 in the Madoc Series by J. Cobb Angelley