Join Author Kimberly Seidman for an exclusive book launch party for her new novel, "Daughter of Warriors." In this captivating debut novel set in the early 1900s, Kimberly introduces us to Lucy, a young Osage living her nearly idyllic early years on the Osage Reservation in northeast Oklahoma. When the demands of colonization impose continual upheaval, Lucy’s life changes forever. And keeps changing. Small pox and Indian Boarding School turn Lucy’s tranquil childhood into an existence bound by fear. The sudden wealth created by the discovery of oil on Osage land dramatically changes the once simple Osage way of life into a reality dictated by the Bureau of Indian affairs and gives rise to the notorious Osage murders that kill so many of Lucy’s family and friends. The horrors all around her eventually lead Lucy to move, with her white husband and their child, to Kansas City, where she steps into her husband’s life. Confronted by the mostly lawless operation of the reining Political Machine, the Mafia, Prohibition, bootlegging, the magic of Kansas City Jazz—and the continued racism that simply takes new forms—Lucy tries very hard to embrace her husband’s life and friends. But the fears that drove her to leave Oklahoma follow her to her new home, unwilling to let her go.