BASED ON ACTUAL EVENTS
The Girl in the Thistles
A NOVEL OF THE DAKOTA SIOUX HOMELAND
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BIO
S.K. is passionate about powerful stories that give voice to the overlooked corners of history — stories that inspire us and help us better understand the world we live in.
He holds degrees in architecture, biblical studies, and education, and has worked as a general contractor. He carries a deep love for two places that shaped him: the wide-open spaces of the Dakotas, where he grew up, and Australia, where his children were born.
MY BOOKS
The Girl in the Thistles
Nineteen-year-old Emilie Ferguson has always belonged to two worlds—her Sioux mother's people, her Scottish father's blood. The US-Dakota War of 1862 destroys both. Her home burns. Her mother is imprisoned. And her father vanishes the day the fighting begins.
Emilie refuses to wait. With two unlikely companions, she follows a dangerous trail across a landscape still smoking from violence, searching for a man who is just as desperate to be found. When Roger Paltrey—a shadowed figure from her father's past—surfaces with answers, she must decide fast: trust him, or run.
What begins as a rescue becomes something harder. To survive, Emilie must stop choosing between her two halves and forge something new from the wreckage of both.
