Tackling the Tight End

"A Novel in the Long Pass Chronicles "

Everyone wants the best for SCU student and tight end Raven Nez and they know exactly what that is. Enter the NFL draft, become a big football hero, promote his tribe s casino, and make a lot of money to help people on the reservation. Just one problem. Raven s gay and he really wants to work with gay kids. Plus he figures a gay Native tight end will get flattened in the NFL. Then the casino board hires a talented student filmmaker to create ads for the tribal business and asks Raven to work with him. But the filmmaker is Dennis Hascomb, a guy with so much to hide and a life so ugly it s beyond Raven s understanding. Still he s drawn to Dennis's pain and incredible ability to survive. Captivated by Raven s stories of the two-spirited and by the amazing joy of finally having a friend, Dennis knows he has to break free from everything he s ever been taught was good but that s a struggle that could kill him and Raven too. Is there a chance for the great red hope and the whitest guy on earth ? A future for the serpent and the raven? "