Penny Rudolph
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"Matty's word-pictures and unorthodox civil disobedience will hold your attention until the last page."-Southwest Book Reviews
It's 1861 in New Mexico Territory, and the Civil War is about to have a startling impact on Matty Summerhayes. Matty is struggling to develop a horse ranch to make enough money to return to the East. A stranger dies in her barn...with a map of her land in his pocket.
Then war is declared, and Texans invade her valley...
2) Lifeblood
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Rachel Chavez, a recovering alcoholic, owns and lives in an apartment on the top floor of a parking garage in downtown Los Angeles. She leases parking space and the use of the rooftop helicopter pad to nearby businesses. Tough but vulnerable, she is struggling to stay sober and keep her business financially afloat. Horrified when she discovers two unconscious young Mexican boys locked in an apparently abandoned van in the garage, she rushes them to...
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Rachel Chavez only wants to stay sober and keep her recently inherited parking lot in downtown LA financially afloat. Then an executive from the nearby water agency is killed by a hit-and-run driver, and Rachel spots the car that did the deed in her garage. A few days later, her stand-in employee dies of peculiar causes, and Rachel unknowingly becomes tangled in the conniving cross-purposes of California water politics. When she uncovers evidence...