Gavilan Mesa

Stolen land, stolen custody and a stolen life. The only witnesses were some prairie dogs …With a friend detained by ICE and a contractor gig that puts her on the wrong side of the 'water wars,' things aren't going well for ex-anthropologist Minoa Diamond as she reinvents herself in Santa Fe NM. But it gets worse when her impulsiveness lands her friend in jail on a murder rap. Around the victim swarm aggrieved relatives, angry ex-lovers, corrupt lobbyists, a scheming lawyer – nobody cares that a poor immigrant sits in jail falsely accused of homicide. Suspects keep multiplying while the prairie dogs on the estate where Minoa rents a one-room guesthouse succumb to extermination. To save her friend and herself, Minoa must race to figure out what millionaire investors, Mexican ex-wives, a real estate development nobody wants and a bunch of poisoned prairie dogs have in common.