Book ONE
COMFREY, WYOMING
Birds of a Feather
Against a backdrop of high prairie winds and soaring, snow-capped peaks, an uneasy friendship based on deception and tenderness makes its final appeal when the words ‘Aunt Heidi’ and a phone number are found written on the arm of a five-year old Arapaho child.
When Heidi Vogel and her husband arrive in New York to open a restaurant, the ambitious young German-born chef could never imagine that six years later, she would be managing a soup kitchen in Wyoming and sharing her home with an abandoned dog and a secretive young woman named Nara Crow.
The birth of Nara’s identical twins soothes the ache Heidi has felt since the death of her own baby, but sends Nara back into a depression that has haunted her for years. When Nara disappears with the children and Heidi’s exhaustive search reveals no leads, Heidi is forced to consider a painful truth—Nara may not want to be found—and the life she thought they were building together was nothing but a charade.
But just as Heidi decides it is time to move on and resurrect her career, an unexpected phone call changes everything and she is thrust into the ignorant world that confronts a transgender child.