The Flute Player

About the Book

Five hundred years before Columbus, the American Southwest was the homeland of the Anasazi civilization. Chaco Canyon was its heart. The reasons for the Anasazi’s disappearance has long been a mystery. As told by the Rain Woman Bent Sparrow, the beginning of the end starts the day Panpele, flute player and wizard, arrives in the Canyon. Panpele rekindles his feud with his life-long enemy, Olin the Sun Watcher, Bent Sparrow’s uncle. Using Bent Sparrow as his tool of revenge, Panpele casts illusions of love and honor that ultimately result in the collapse of an entire way of life.

About the Author

According to a high school vocation test, Susan Scott-Stevens was suited for work as a forest ranger, college professor, medium, or spy. Merging those career options, she became a cultural anthropologist. Her work has taken her from Kalimantan in Indonesia to the uranium mines of Gallup, New Mexico. The Flute Player, her first novel, won an award at the Southwest Writer’s Conference in the category of historical fiction. She is also the author of an award-winning short story for ethnographic fiction, The Djinn Tree. Susan currently lives and writes in Boulder, Colorado.