Wild Indigo |
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| Author:
| Ault, Sandi |
| ISBN: | 978-1-7335099-5-4 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2019 |
| Publisher: | HandInPaw Publishing
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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WILD INDIGO introduces Jamaica Wild-and the beginning of a THRILLING NEW SERIES.
The high desert of New Mexico becomes the backdrop for this debut novel of ancient rituals, restless spirits, a desperate female Fed, and a crime that could destroy an entire culture . . .
BLM Agent Jamaica Wild witnesses a Tanoah Pueblo man being trampled to death by stampeding buffalo. The tribe declares the incident a suicide, the FBI concurs, and the body is hurried to ceremony...
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WILD INDIGO introduces Jamaica Wild-and the beginning of a THRILLING NEW SERIES.
The high desert of New Mexico becomes the backdrop for this debut novel of ancient rituals, restless spirits, a desperate female Fed, and a crime that could destroy an entire culture . . .
BLM Agent Jamaica Wild witnesses a Tanoah Pueblo man being trampled to death by stampeding buffalo. The tribe declares the incident a suicide, the FBI concurs, and the body is hurried to ceremony before the sun can go down on his spirit.
But Agent Wild suspects foul play. Haunted by the memory of seeing his body bloody with welts and a strange ecstasy in his eyes, she pursues her own investigation, which leads her into a labyrinth of clandestine Pueblo religious rites, peyote cults, and Hispanic and Tiwa witchcraft. But Jamaica has promised the mother of the victim, the beloved matriarch of the Santana family, to find out what really happened to her son. Until Anna Santana took her in long ago, Jamaica was a stray, much like the wary wolf pup she has just rescued.
When the tribal government and the local paper make allegations that Jamaica caused the stampede, she soon finds herself banned from the Pueblo, suspended from her job, and allied with an old, reclusive curandera who induces trances and casts spells.
Ultimately, Jamaica discovers that the answer to the mystery is contained in another secret, perhaps the greatest secret regarding Tanoah Pueblo -- one that threatens its future and its past.
"[A] striking debut . . . Scenes of the high, dry, glittering landscape are as clean as sun-bleached bone, and there are thrills galore . . . But Ault is no less artful at depicting the marriage customs, funeral rites, and religious ceremonies that have drawn Jamaica to this tightly knit world and made her lose her heart to its people."-The New York Times Book Review
"Read this for outdoor adventure and take a walk on the Wild side."-Rocky Mountain News