As seen on MSNBC's Well-Mannered Traveler

As an author, Laine strives to create literature that bridges divisions of nationality, race, class, religion, gender and age. Books that show readers the emotional lives of individuals from other cultures, socioeconomic levels and subcultures open a safe passage for exploration. Our global society makes this type of work more important now than ever before.

Her first novel, Message Stick, is set in Australia’s unforgiving outback. Until early in the 1970s, the government forcibly removed biracial and light-skinned Aboriginal children from their parents. When Gabriel Branch searches the outback for a missing friend, he visits places he hasn’t seen for over forty years. His entire life has been spent avoiding the pain caused by the loss of his cultural identity. The Pitjantjatjara shaman who loots ancestral sites has murdered his friend and begins stalking Gabe. While searching for justice, Gabe finds himself.

In her next book, Seven Sisters, she uses Aboriginal wisdom to help readers with modern issues.