Guest Post - Maggie Blackbird - The Matapit Family Series

Redeemed

The Matawapit Family Series Book 2

by Maggie Blackbird

Genre: Contemporary Inspirational Romance

A single woman battles to keep her foster child from his newly-paroled father—a dangerous man she used to love.

Bridget Matawapit is an Indigenous activist, daughter of a Catholic deacon, and foster mother to Kyle, the son of an Ojibway father—the ex-fiancé she kicked to the curb after he chose alcohol over her love. With Adam out on parole and back in Thunder Bay, she is determined to stop him from obtaining custody of Kyle.

Adam Guimond is a recovering alcoholic and ex-gangbanger newly-paroled. Through counselling, reconnecting with his Ojibway culture and twelve-step meetings while in prison, Adam now understands he’s worthy of the love that frightened him enough to pick up the bottle he’d previously corked. He can't escape the damage he caused so many others, but he longs to rise like a true warrior in the pursuit of forgiveness and a second chance. There's nothing he isn't willing to do to win back his son--and Bridget.

When an old cell mate’s daughter dies under mysterious circumstances in foster care, Adam begs Bridget to help him uncover the truth. Bound to the plight of the Indigenous children in care, Bridget agrees. But putting herself in contact with Adam threatens to resurrect her long-buried feelings for him, and even worse, she risks losing care of Kyle, by falling for a man who might destroy her faith in love completely this time.

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Blessed

The Matawapit Family Series Book 1

Genre: Contemporary M/M Inspirational Romance

It’s been ten years since Emery Matawapit sinned, having succumbed to temptation for the one thing in his life that felt right, another man. In six months he’ll make a life-changing decision that will bar him from sexual relationships for the rest of his life.

Darryl Keejik has a decade-long chip on his shoulder, and he holds Emery’s father, the church deacon, responsible for what he’s suffered: the loss of his family and a chance at true love with Emery. No longer a powerless kid, Darryl has influence within the community—maybe more than the deacon. Darryl intends on using his power to destroy Deacon Matawapit and his church.

Hoping to save the church, Emery races home. But stopping Darryl is harder than expected when their sizzling chemistry threatens to consume Emery. Now he is faced with the toughest decision of his life: please his devout parents and fulfill his call to the priesthood, or remain true to his heart and marry the man created for him.

This is very erotic book about a spiritual journey.

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I don’t have any “side stories” but I did dig deep into Mrs. Dale’s backstory since she’s Redeemed’s main antagonist.  This is what I came up with for her that I kept on hand for the story, although she never gets a POV, and a lot of the information isn’t included in the novel.  I left out Mrs. Dale’s GMC to shorten my blog post.

First and Last Name:  Irene Dale (antagonist)

Age and job:  67/68, caseworker for Children and Family Services

Description of the character's personality/hobbies/physical appearance/

traumas or hang-ups that factor into his or her story conflicts:

Irene Dale was happily married but her husband died before they could have children.  She never recovered and devoted herself to her job. Her caseload is the Indigenous children.  She sees too many of them. She watches the parents mess up time and time again. She is always going to homes to remove children.  Because of this, she is prejudice against the Indigenous people. She views them as either good (those who work and pay taxes) or bad (drinking, etc.)

Iren’s very unhappy about how her life turned out.  Horace, her deceased husband, meant everything to her.  He was the one man who accepted her quirks: everything in order, anal about cleaning, stickler of schedule, always goes by the clock, follows and obeys each and every rule.  Irene views the world in black and white. There is no grey.

She has a Sphynx cat because Irene needs a companion during the lonely nights, but she can’t tolerate pet fur anywhere in the house.  She still visits Horace’s grave, and wears her wedding band on a chain around her neck. Horace was a childhood friend who was always picked on by the other kids, and Irene always intervened, standing up for Horace because he couldn’t stand up for himself.

She loves to knit and read. Her favorite pastime is her after-work evening walks to Reggie’s Donuts where she likes to sit, read her newspaper, and drink tea at a table.

She is reed thin.  Sharp features. Grey hair pinned into a French roll.  She wears a chignon for more informal settings.

As Kyle’s caseworker, she’ll do everything possible to stop Adam from obtaining care of his son, because Irene knows if he begins looking after Kyle again, the boy will be another Adam—a gangbanging, drunken, in-and-out-of-prison drain on society, but Adam’s determined to win, and Irene fears if Adam gains Bridget on his side (who has a lot of backing in the community, her church, and through the Indigenous Women’s Alliance), Irene will fail, and she’ll do everything possible to make sure she doesn’t fail.

Irene can’t handle failure.  She views losing Horace to heart disease as a failure since she couldn’t keep him alive.

 

An Ojibway from Northwestern Ontario, Maggie resides in the country with her husband and their fur babies, two beautiful Alaskan Malamutes. When she’s not writing, she can be found pulling weeds in the flower beds, mowing the huge lawn, walking the Mals deep in the bush, teeing up a ball at the golf course, fishing in the boat for walleye, or sitting on the deck at her sister’s house, making more wonderful memories with the people she loves most.

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