Chapter 9 Summary

Annawake comes back and finds Jax alone, Taylor and Turtle long gone. Jax questions her and she tells him that it's not the Cherokee Nation pursuing the case but herself.. She says she doesn't know if the tribe's child welfare department would take the child, or even if they should.

Annawake reveals that she knows the adoption was rigged and Jax tells her the whole story. A social worker in Tucson was demanding adoption papers, so Taylor persuaded a Guatemalan couple to pose as Indians. The man in Oklahoma City who approved it was old, probably retired by now, he tells her and the Guatemalans long gone.

He goes into the house, brings out two bottles of beer and sits next to her as they look at the stars. He tells her that the Pleiades is called The Seven Sisters. She responds that...