Killer of Enemies is a novel that takes place in the future. My main character is a Chiricahua Apache woman named Lozen named after a historical figure among the Chiricahuas, who was a warrior woman and a woman who had considerable medicine, could detect enemies coming from a distance, and was a very significant person within Chiricahua culture within the late 1800s.
My, Lozen in my story in the future, finds herself in the position of again having to help her people, having to protect her family by being a monster slayer. This takes us back even further to the beginning times when among the Diné, the Navajo, and the Tiné, the Apache people there were hero twins, monster slayer, child born of water, who had to destroy the monsters that threatened human life. And the monsters in the parallel future are somewhat like those in the past.
The story is much more complex than that, and I don’t want to give too much of it away, but it is a story about the power of women, about the power of myth, and also looking at the present day and projecting forward that if things keep going, if they keep going in a certain way, we may end up with this future.
