Maskwa

<p><em>At the dawn of a rising revolution a solitary Indigenous Métis bounty hunter joins her detective father and their robot sidekick to pursue a killer only to discover that the very thing she has been running from is now her one shot to capture the killer heal her past and alter the future.</em></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(8 8 9 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>At the dawn of a rising revolution where dust storms rage and water is scarce Alaska Rainmaker rides the wasteland as a bounty hunter tracking down fugitives with her motorcycle and lasso. Part Cree part Welsh and wholly determined she lives with seizures mental health issues and a lightning spirit that brings visions of her ancestors and a longing for her ancestral connection.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(8 8 9 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Being a recluse she reluctantly agrees to team up with her detective father and their human-like robot sidekick to hunt the Copycat Killer - a serial murderer wearing the masks of history's most notorious killers. </span><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>As they </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>follow clues in a labyrinth of diverse characters they descend deeper into the city's dark dystopian underbelly. As f</span><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>atalities appear to share the same markings Alaska must confront not only a human monster but also the possibility that the crimes may be connected to something far older and darker: the Wetiko an ancient distorted entity based in her cultural lore that feeds on severed threads - within individuals between people and between humanity and Mother Earth.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(8 8 9 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Blending Indigenous spirituality cyberpunk aesthetics diversity climate fiction and a hard-boiled crime narrative Maskwa (Cree for bear) follows Alaska's journey from bounty hunter to bear medicine woman as she battles both personal-ancestral shadows and literal ones in a quest that spans the collapsing landscape of America and the eternal wisdom of her ancestors.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(8 8 9 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Maskwa is Indigenous futurism at its most visceral: a vision of what it means to be a courageous rainbow warrior in the twilight of empire where the old ways and new technologies merge in the fight for survival healing justice and planetary renewal.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Over 300 pages of Indigenous futurism climate fiction and heart-pounding rebellion. </span></p>