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Product Description To Dance With a Dream Catcher is set in the 1950's in the ranching country of Central New Mexico. It is a love story between two very different people. The man, Fargo, a wild, tough young rodeo champion who has become world weary, longs for something that has been missing from his life. For years, he has carried an image of a beautiful woman in his mind, not knowing where she came from until one day he remembers, and realizes she was real, and not an illusion. She was someone he had once seen, and he had to find her. The woman, Haley, an innocent and naive yet spirited young woman who dreams of breaking free of a destructive family life, and escaping the smothering small town where she has been raised. Never having known real love before, and determined to run from everything she knows, can the love of this man keep her and hold her still? To Dance With A Dream Catcher is a multifaceted tale. While unabashedly romantic, with its young characters experiencing first love, it is also a nostalgic story of the land, ranching, cowboys and rodeo, human needs and dreams and overcoming genuine adversity on the way to self discovery. It is about finding the courage to become who you really are. AustinNiell's vivid descriptions of New Mexico's enchanting landscape and bigger than life characters draw the reader into an whirlwind of emotion that keeps the pages turning, yet makes a reader pause at the last page before saying goodbye to its characters. About the Author Leola AustinNiell is a native of New Mexico. She grew up near the small community of Estancia, and attended Eastern New Mexico University. She took early retirement from a government job three years ago and sat down to write this story that had been churning around in her head, trying to be told, for over ten years. AustinNiell has a daughter, son and a grandson. She resides near Edgewood, New Mexico, where she continues to gather material and background for future projects. To Dance With a Dream Catcher is her first novel. Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter One Often as late as September, New Mexico's desert sun can blaze down white hot, drying and parching everything it touches. It bounces off chrome bumpers and tin roofs and reflects back from windowpanes and windmills, making it difficult to see without squinting. Even lizards and horned toads scurry for anything large enough to cast a shadow offering some semblance of shade. In the small ranching community of Chino, located almost dead center of the state, Mother Nature had been penurious indeed in providing much of anything to cast a shadow. As late as the fifties, this flat, sprawling country was still mostly praire with scatterings of yucca, juniper, scrub cedar, lowbranching mesquite, and an occasional outcropping of pinon. Those inhabitants who were fortunate enough to have had ancestors with the foresight to have planted cottonwood, and then been diligent enough to have nurtured them through draught, insects, all manner of edvouring rodents, and harsh, scathing winds until the taproot found water at last, were the few people able to find any measure of relief during the area's hottest months. The Taylor ranch was one of three of these manmade oases in the Chino community, and 5 September 1955 was one of those Septembers in New Mexico. Nellie Taylor sat in her bedroom sprawled in front of a small electric fan, her arms hanging limply over the sides of the chair, one hand gripping the wooden handle of a fan and her legs straight as sticks in front of her. It was one of those days she hated most in this godforsaken country. She could find no relief from the dry heat even though the fan was stirring up a slight breeze. How she wished she could be a child again and go back home for good. Though Nellie had married Harlan Taylor on her nineteenth birthday and had lived on the ranch since they arrived on their honeymoon twentyfive years ago