BENEATH THE POISON TREE, a Trilogy From the necklace of a fallen Comanche warrior, a chinaberry tree grows wild on the Great Plains. Its flower is beautiful. Its fruit is deadly. Who would have guessed that a mystical tree of beauty and death could seed a sage of love lost and found? In an honest yet uplifting story, two women make their way to an unforgiving land at the turn of the twentieth century and birth dynasties of hope and redemption from the poison of indifference and rejection. FORSAKEN, Book 1 Eva was unloved, a pawn in a marriage for gain. She was sent away, forsaken. At fifteen, she meets Rome, a sapling of a boy. She becomes pregnant. She is hunted down, her baby kidnapped. In a flight into darkness, she survives, then meets a blue-eyed dreamer near an old poison tree.