Heartbeat of the Bitterroot

  Why is Jenna driven to find the man who is her biological father?

  What conflicting feelings does Jenna have about her mother? What helps her to ultimately come to a sort of peace about her mother’s choices?

  In the end, we don’t see how Jenna’s meeting with her biological father goes for her. How has her personal growth become more important than whether she is accepted by him?

  Acknowledgments

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  I am deeply thankful to my daughter, Andrea Culletto, for her encouragement and inspiration. Many thanks to Wendy Allik for research information on bison. I appreciate her deep and abiding love of these magical creatures. Thank you to Dorothy Nantt-Staggs for all things bitterroot flower related. I am grateful to Jean Belangie-Nye for her valuable feedback and to Erica Myers and Hali Bird at Cedar Fort Publishing for editing services extraordinaire.

  About the Author

  Janice Mineer is a graduate of Brigham Young University. She is the author of an illustrated children’s book, Gingerbread from the Heart. Her poem, “Here,” placed second in the international Eliza R. Snow Poetry Contest.

  Janice loves playing and teaching the harp, reading, gardening, and spending time on the lakes and rivers of Montana. She and her husband, Randy, have five grown children and eleven beautiful grandchildren. They live in western Montana’s beautiful Bitterroot Valley.