The Spirit Bundle

Flyn Devon has always been haunted by voices. Alcohol and prescription drugs promised peace, but the cost was high. When he’s entrusted with an elk-hide bag representing his grandfather's spirit and told to perform an honoring ceremony over it every morning and night for a year, Flyn realizes this might be his chance to understand the voices and learn more about his Lakota roots. The peace he hopes to gain from this knowledge could improve his relationship with Selena, whose dead husband’s spirit won’t leave her alone. He also hopes to understand her strange connection with Amach, a medicine woman living in a different time and space who is trapped by circumstances over which she seems to have no control.

Flyn Devon has always been haunted by voices. Alcohol and prescription drugs promised peace, but the cost was high. When he’s entrusted with an elk-hide bag representing his grandfather's spirit and told to perform an honor ceremony over it every morning and night for a year, Flyn realizes this might be his chance to understand the voices and learn more about his Lakota roots. The peace he hopes to gain from this knowledge could improve his relationship with Selena, whose dead husband’s spirit won’t leave her alone and who shares a strange and mystical connection with Amach, a medicine woman living in a different time and space. While trying to help Amach, Selena learns truths that apply to all humans regarding how to stand in balance on our Mother Earth. Remembering only that he called his grandfather 'Pop Pop’, the spirit bundle enables Flyn to learn more about the man who was revered by family and the people of the Cheyenne River Reservation. With this year-long commitment and a four-day Vision Quest, Flyn finds a chance for reconciliation with his native roots and self-forgiveness from the shame surrounding his addictions. He also learns that Selena and Amach are tied to him by threads that weave a tapestry of passion, pain, wisdom, and magic. Written for the developing genre of Visionary Fiction, “The Spirit Bundle” (book two of Earlene Gleisner's Sacred Bundle series) is a rich and human story of personal growth and spirituality. With elements of romance, paranormal adventure and mystery, it’s sure to keep readers turning pages long after the sun goes down.

Earlene Gleisner, Reiki Master, has long held a dream of writing. The Sacred Bundle series is the achieving of that dream. It was inspired by thirty-three years of traveling, along with her late husband, with the First Nation peoples of Turtle Island and her investigation of paranormal activities. The series weaves a circle tale that follows relationships across time, including the relationships we hold with each other, with our Earth, with our spiritual paths and with ourselves. In addition to fiction, Earlene has also written non-fiction for two Canadian anthologies, The Complementary Medical Manual for Physicians, and local newspapers and newsletters. Through her publishing company, White Feather Press, she created "Reiki In Everyday Living" which was translated into four languages and published in five countries. A variety of short stories has been self-published and distributed through her web site, www.standinginbalance.com. Earlene currently lives in Northern California.