Aimee Thurlo Books In Order

Ella Clah Books In Publication Order

  1. Blackening Song (1995)
  2. Death Walker (1996)
  3. Bad Medicine (1997)
  4. Enemy Way (1998)
  5. Shooting Chant (2000)
  6. Red Mesa (2001)
  7. Changing Woman (2002)
  8. Plant Them Deep (2003)
  9. Tracking Bear (2003)
  10. Wind Spirit (2004)
  11. White Thunder (2005)
  12. Mourning Dove (2006)
  13. Turquoise Girl (2007)
  14. Coyote’s Wife (2008)
  15. Earthway (2009)
  16. Neverending Snake (2010)
  17. Black Thunder (2011)
  18. Ghost Medicine (2013)

Four Winds Books In Publication Order

  1. Her Destiny (1997)
  2. Her Hero (1998)
  3. Her Shadow (1998)

The Brothers of Rock Ridge Books In Publication Order

  1. Redhawk’s Heart (1999)
  2. Redhawk’s Return (1999)

Sister Agatha Books In Publication Order

  1. Bad Faith (With: David Thurlo) (2002)
  2. Thief in Retreat (With: David Thurlo) (2004)
  3. Prey for a Miracle (With: David Thurlo) (2006)
  4. False Witness (With: David Thurlo) (2007)
  5. The Prodigal Nun (With: David Thurlo) (2008)
  6. Bad Samaritan (With: David Thurlo) (2009)

Lee Nez Books In Publication Order

  1. Second Sunrise (With: David Thurlo) (2002)
  2. Blood Retribution (With: David Thurlo) (2004)
  3. Pale Death (With: David Thurlo) (2005)
  4. Surrogate Evil (With: David Thurlo) (2006)

Sign of the Gray Wolf Books In Publication Order

  1. When Lightning Strikes (2002)
  2. Navajo Justice (2002)

Brotherhood of Warriors Books In Publication Order

  1. Council of Fire (2007)
  2. Restless Wind (2007)
  3. Stargazer’s Woman (2008)
  4. The Shadow (2009)
  5. Navajo Courage (2009)

Brotherhood of Warriors Books In Chronological Order

  1. Navajo Courage (2009)
  2. Council of Fire (2007)
  3. Restless Wind (2007)
  4. Stargazer’s Woman (2008)
  5. The Shadow (2009)

Long Mountain Heroes Books In Publication Order

  1. Alpha Warrior (2010)
  2. Twilight Warrior (2011)

Copper Canyon Books In Publication Order

  1. Winter Hawk’s Legend (2011)
  2. Power of the Raven (2012)
  3. Secrets of the Lynx (2012)
  4. Falcon’s Run (2013)
  5. Undercover Warrior (2014)
  6. Eagle’s Last Stand (2014)

Navajo Rez Books In Publication Order

  1. A Time of Change (With: David Thurlo) (2013)
  2. Looking Through Darkness (With: David Thurlo) (2017)

Charlie Henry Books In Publication Order

  1. The Pawnbroker (With: David Thurlo) (2014)
  2. Grave Consequences (With: David Thurlo) (2015)
  3. Rob Thy Neighbor (By:David Thurlo) (2016)
  4. Kill the Heroes (By:David Thurlo) (2017)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Fires Within (1984)
  2. Ariel’s Desire (1987)
  3. The Right Combination (1988)
  4. Expiration Date (1989)
  5. Suitable For Framing (1990)
  6. Second Shadow (With: David Thurlo) (1990)
  7. Black Mesa (1990)
  8. Strangers Who Linger (1991)
  9. Night Wind (1991)
  10. Breach of Faith (1992)
  11. Shadow of the Wolf (1993)
  12. Spirit Warrior (1993)
  13. Bearing Gifts (1994)
  14. Timewalker (1994)
  15. Fatal Charm (1995)
  16. Cisco’s Woman (1996)
  17. Christmas Witness (2000)
  18. Black Raven’s Pride (2001)
  19. The Spirit Line (With: David Thurlo) (2004)
  20. Homespun Christmas (2013)

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Aimee Thurlo Books Overview

Blackening Song

Blackening Song is the debut of Navajo FBI agent Ella Clah, who returns to the reservation to investigate the murder of her father, a minister. The ritual nature of the killing makes Ella’s brother, a medicine man, the prime suspect. Without cooperation from the tribe, the FBI, or the local police, Ella must plumb the depths of the struggle between traditionalist and modernist forces among the Navajo to find her father’s murderer.

Death Walker

Returning to the Navajo Reservation and solving her father’s murder taught former FBI Agent Ella Clah a great deal about herself and her people, the Dineh. She has begun to accept that that there is more to the world than can be explained by FBI training and forensic science. Newly hired as a Special Investigator with the tribal police, Ella investigates the brutal murders of several of the Dineh’s ‘living treasures,’ Navajos esteemed for their knowledge of the tribe’s religious and cultural wisdom. Illusion and ritual duel with police procedures and science as Ella strives to find out who is destroying the heart of the tribe.

Bad Medicine

When the daughter of Senator Yellowhair is killed in a suspicious car accident, the Senator accuses Ella and the tribe’s medical examiner, Dr. Carolyn Roanhorse, of falsifying the autopsy results. An outbreak of meningitis leads to more trouble when many of those who are vaccinated against the illness begin dying from a different, unidentified disease. Riots between Indian and white workers at the Navajo owned mine stretch the resources of the tribal police even thinner.
Convinced that solving one mystery means solving them all, Ella plunges into her investigations despite threats from all sides and her suspicions that Navajo witches are somehow involved. Ella Clah has sworn to protect her people from all menaces spiritual or physical and she’s not going to back off now.

Enemy Way

Former FBI agent Ella Clah is now a Special investigator with the native police force. her brother, Clifford, a medicine man, says that her investigative skills are gifts from the spirits who guard and guide the Navajo, but Ella insists it’s her training that has her honed her instincts. The Navajo are in turmoil. the tribal police are spread thin throughout the vast reservation, trying to rein in gang violence, murderous drunk drivers, and race riots. Ella’s newest assignment is to solve the murder of an old friend’s fiancee. Ella is shocked to discover signs of skinwalker activity in the woman’s home was her friend’s fiancee a Navajo witch, a hereditary enemy of Ella’s family. Ella must solve the murder, do something to stop drinking and driving on the Rez, and keep Navajo teenagers from killing each other, while trying to find and fight her oldest enemies.

Shooting Chant

Once and FBI agent, Ella Clah is now a Special Investigator with the Navajo Police. She walks a tightrope between the Navajo and white worlds, fully accepted by neither but needed by both. Ella’s brother, Clifford, a hataali or medicine man, says that her investigative skills are a gift from the spirits who guard and guide the Dineh, but Ella insists it’s her FBI training that has honed her instincts. Ella’s life is about to change in ways she can barely begin to imagine she is newly pregnant, and though she knows who the father is, she will not marry him. In Navajo society, her child will be of her clan, and will be accepted by her family, no matter what but how can she stay a police officer, exposing herself and her unborn child to terrible danger day after day?Given her current caseload, it’s hard for Ella to put off making a final decision about her career. There’s a near riot at LabKote, a factory on the Reservation that produces high quality vessels for medical labs. The Fierce Ones, an activist group of Navajo, are insisting that more native workers be hired by the firm including a Navajo replacement for a manager recently found dead in his car, an apparent suicide. A sniper shoots at Ella as she drives to another crime scene the home of State Senator James Yellowhair, who has been kidnapped. Feuding between traditionalist and modernist elements in the Navajo nation heats up with sabotage, vandalism, and murder, spurred by a rise in birth defects among the Dineh’s livestock and rustling of sheep and cattle. Ella’s personal concerns mount when officers investigating a break in at the health clinic discover that the records of several pregnant women including Ella are missing. Then one of the pregnant women is murdered…
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Red Mesa

Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah is on the run. Justine, Ella’s cousin and fellow officer, disappeared after the two women argued publicly over Justine’s new boyfriend. Human bones are discovered at the spot where the younger woman had told her family she and Ella were to meet late one night. Suddenly Ella Clah, cop, is Ella Clah, murder suspect. Stunned by Justine’s death, Ella has no time to mourn. Her former allies in the Navajo Police Department and the FBI are hot on her trail, using techniques she taught them to hunt her down. Ella has to find the real killers and fast before the Dineh act on a growing belief that Ella’s mother, brother, and young daughter have become evil.

Changing Woman

In the Navajo tradition, Changing Woman represents life springing up from nothing. She is the ultimate hope of the world. She is Woman, who embodies all the mysteries of life. Changing WomanChange surrounds Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah. The father of her child seems ready to be more of a father, though it will alter the rhythm of all their lives and may hurt his political career. Ella’s mother, Rose, has rediscovered her passion for politics and struggles to guide her people on the best way to walk in beauty. The Dineh seem to be ready to bring casino gambling to the Rez, despite the risk that the character of the Navajo Nation will be forever altered. Speaking eloquently against the proposal, Rose becomes a national celebrity. Ella has no time to think about how these changes will affect her and her two year old daughter. The Navajo Police Force is combating an increasingly violent wave of vandalism, always two steps behind despite their best efforts. Events come to a head with the terrorist takeover of a coal mine and power plant on the Reservation. Ella must keep the terrorists from blowing up the power plant but how can she focus on being a cop when her daughter is missing?

Plant Them Deep

For the Navajo, to ‘walk in beauty’ to stay in balance with the natural world around one is the greatest gift, and the greatest task, of one’s life. For Rose Destea, to walk in beauty has meant threading a difficult path between traditionalist and modernist ways. Though she worships at the family shrine, her husband was a Christian preacher. Though her son, Clifford Destea, is a respected hataalii or medicine man, her daughter, Ella Clah, is a Special Investigator with the Navajo Police and a former FBI agent. After decades as a wife, mother, and grandmother, Rose has become a tribal activist. Briefly in the national spotlight when she spoke against bringing casino gambling to the Navajo Reservation, Rose now works to guide not just her family but the whole tribe into a balanced future. When Navajo healers and members of the Plant Watchers society report that healing plants sacred to the Navajo are disappearing from the Rez, the tribal council asks Rose to catalog the plants and their growing places. She faces strong opposition from hataaliis reluctant to reveal their secret herb gathering spots and from people who think the Rez should cultivate genetically engineered plants instead of native species. Rose finds evidence that many plants have been stolen plants that may be valuable in the growing market for alternative and natural medications. Rose’s home is burgled and her plant notes stolen. Adding to her worries is the serious illness of an old friend and the apparent extinction of a plant essential to the healing ritual that is the sick woman’s only hope of a cure. Then a Navajo man is found dead, apparently of a heart attack; Rose is convinced that he was murdered by the plant thief. Rose has picked up a trick or two from her police officer daughter; she begins an independent investigation that soon has her up to her neck in trouble. Plant Them Deep is a stand alone novel that complements the Ella Clah series and will deepen readers’ understanding of the Navajo world.

Tracking Bear

A group of businessmen is working to open a uranium mine and nuclear power plant on the Navajo Reservation. The NEED project will provide cheap power to the Navajo nation, employ many who are out of work, and earn income for the tribe by selling surplus power to Arizona, New Mexico, and other western states. Investigating the murder of a Navajo cop during a break in and robbery, Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah learns that the dead man’s father, a retired physicist, is strongly opposed to uranium mining and nuclear plants. Ella’s mother, Rose, opposes the plans as well, taking as her cause the health of the workers and the land. Kevin Tolino, the father of Ella’s daughter, hires a bodyguard after receiving threats because of his public support of the project. A Navajo community college teacher is assaulted, and his office and home ransacked apparently by the same person who murdered the Navajo police officer.A tribal official who opposes NEED is murdered. Clues seem to lead to a major supporter of the nuclear project, but the man insists he’s being framed. Other area murders are also linked to NEED supporters but why would a group of wealthy businessmen kill their opponents when they could just outspend them? There has to be more going on than political wrangling, but Ella is fumbling in the dark, with uncooperative witnesses and few clues.

Wind Spirit

When an arson fire claims the life of the wife of a Navajo Councilmember who spearheaded gun control measures, tensions flare throughout the Rez. Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah’s search for the killers is hampered by what happened to her a few days earlier. That day, Ella had acted quickly when an underground explosion triggered the collapse of an abandoned mineshaft. Seeing a child sliding into an exposed tunnel, Ella saved his life but was trapped underground for several frightening, airless minutes. Ella’s brother Clifford, a Navajo medicine man, believes that Ella died and that his hataalii abilities showed her wandering Wind Spirit the way back to her body. Traditionalist Navajo are reluctant to speak to Ella, fearing that she has been contaminated with chindi and become evil. Even some of her fellow police officers are uncomfortable in Ella’s presence. Undaunted, Ella continues her quest for justice. But she knows that her experiences underground have changed her permanently. Perhaps she will find a new way to walk in beauty…
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White Thunder

FBI agent Andrew Thomas has disappeared after interrupting a Navajo ritual being performed by a group of medicine men or hataaliis. Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah is assigned to the case over the objections of Thomas’s supervisor, who unfavorably recalls Ella s time with the FBI and believes her to have received special treatment because she is Native American.
Determined to find the missing man, Ella studies Thomas s latest case a fraud investigation and finds that evidence is missing or has been tampered with. Clues lead both to the interrupted Sing and to Ella s old friend, FBI agent Blalock. Ella knows Blalock is incapable of assaulting one of his own men but that leaves the focus on the hataaliis.
The fraud trail leads through a maze of paperwork, banks, government offices, mortuaries, and into the Navajos most dearly held beliefs about death. Only by finding the truth and fast will Ella be able to save Andrew Thomas.

Mourning Dove

What did the dead man know? Jimmy Blacksheep, a Navajo member of the New Mexico National Guard recently returned from Iraq, is killed in what appears to be a carjacking gone wrong. But when Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah receives a mysterious package in the mail, she begins to suspect that Jimmy’s death is part of something larger. Ella finds she must use Navajo lore, not FBI cryptography, to decode Jimmy’s message. Tantalizing clues link Jimmy’s death to his military service but what could the medic have seen in Iraq that would make him a target for murder back home? Ella’s personal life seems just as complicated as her case. Her mother, Rose Destea, marries her long time beau, Herman Cloud. Then the father of Ella’s daughter, Dawn, asks for a change in custody arrangements that will reduce Ella to a weekend mother a much easier fit with her workload but something that will take a terrible toll on her heart.

Turquoise Girl

Valerie Tso has been murdered, apparently during a break in, and Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah is determined to find the killer and fast. Valerie is the estranged mother of Boots, who takes care of Ella’s daughter after school. Ella owes Boots a quick resolution to the case. Unfortunately, things aren t as simple as they seem. A Bible verse on a scrap of paper left near the body reminds Ella of a string of murders of Navajo women she worked on in her FBI days. The killer was never found. Now he seems to be killing again, targeting the children of the women he murdered ten years ago. Ella discovers that the earlier victims and Valerie had been lovers of Caleb Frank, a successful Navajo businessman. Once a member of Ella s father s congregation, Frank had believed that sinners had to be punished. Could Boots born out of wedlock be Caleb Frank s next target? Ella is an unmarried mother is her own daughter in danger?

Coyote’s Wife

Ella Clah is no longer an unsure young woman recently returned to the Navajo Reservation from a stint with the FBI; she has found her place in her tribe, her clan, and her family. She has seen the Din at their worst and at their best as they balance the modern era with the traditional Navajo way of life. Ervin Benally, son in law of the powerful Navajo businesswoman and politician Abigail Yellowhair, plans to bring satellite telephone service to the Rez. When Benally is attacked and another man is killed, Yellowhair orders Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah assigned to the case. Ella is determined to find out who is behind the attacks, which include elements of Navajo witchcraft. Coyote’s Wife, which introduces a new source of tension in Ella s personal life, will satisfy both the returning reader and those new to this series.

Earthway

Ella Clah has found her place on the Navajo Reservation, in her tribe, her clan, and her family. She has seen the Din at their worst and at their best as they balance the modern era with the traditional Navajo way of life.

The Navajo are building a nuclear power plant on the Reservation. Though the tribe voted for the plant, there are those who believe that nuclear power is inherently dangerous and particularly so for the Navajo, due to past uranium mining operations that contaminated land and water and sickened many Navajo workers and their families.

A group of activists is determined to do whatever is necessary to stop the plant assault, sabotage, domestic terrorism. When a fellow Navajo Police officer is injured in an attack aimed at Ella’s boyfriend, Ella vows to do whatever it takes to find the terrorists and bring them to justice.

Neverending Snake

As a people, the Navajo seek to walk in beauty and find a balance between modern and traditional culture. As a mother, a daughter, and a member of the Navajo Nation, Ella Clah finds her own way to walk but as a police officer, she seeks both justice and truth. When Never ending snake begins, Ella is returning from a trip to Washington, DC, where she has been presented with a lucrative offer of employment with a private security firm. The catch? She would have to leave the Reservation. And while Ella has lived off the Rez before, it would be a life altering experience for her daughter, Dawn. Before Ella has a chance to even begin making up her mind, gunfire sends her and her companions diving for cover. Who is the target? War hero and alternative fuel lobbyist Adam Lonewolf, politician and tribal attorney Kevin Tolino, or Ella herself? As a Navajo Police Special Investigator, Ella has made more than one enemy.

Black Thunder

A construction crew found the first body. The cops found three more, in a cluster that lay on both sides of the border of the Navajo Reservation. Because some of the bodies were buried outside the Rez, Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah and her team must work a delicate joint investigation with the New Mexico police. Identifying the dead isn t easy some had been buried for years and at first the cases look to be nothing but dead ends. Then one of the bodies turns out to be that of a missing man who was believed to have embezzled funds from his construction firm and suspicions focus on the man’s partner. With no obvious links between any of the corpses and the anniversary of their deaths fast approaching, Ella feels frustrated by the investigation s lack of progress. Unless they can find what connects these victims, someone else may soon be killed. Ella s ability to concentrate is battered by worries about her teenage daughter, who has been skipping school, and her mother, who is cooking up a storm, a sure sign that trouble is brewing in the household. Black Thunder, an Ella Clah novel, is a police procedural mystery that should appeal to all readers.

Her Shadow

FOUR WINDSHE KNOWS ALL THE SECRETS Lucas Blackhorse, with eyes like midnight and a smile like a summer day, is a doctor a healer of bodies, a knower of hearts. But luckily for Marlee Smith, the last bachelor Blackhorse brother doesn’t know what she’s kept hidden. For which is a darker, deeper secret Marlee’s past or her love for Lucas?EXCEPT HERS But with a mysterious illness sweeping Four Winds, and once close friendships now charged with suspicion and fear, fingers point to Marlee and whispers frame her. Suddenly the past she’s run from is a very present threat. Her only hope is the love she’s concealed and Lucas.’The ultra sexy Blackhorse brothers will have every woman in America fantasizing about a visit to Four Winds, New Mexico.’ JoAnn Ross

Bad Faith (With: David Thurlo)

Once she was Professor Mary Naughton, investigative reporter, teacher, and free spirit. Now she is Sister Agatha of Our Lady of Hope, a cloistered, financially struggling monastery in New Mexico. As an extern a nun who handles her order’s dealings with the outside world she is used to having her faith and newly acquired patience tested. But when popular chaplain Father Anselm is poisoned to death in the middle of Mass, Sister Agatha has to bring all her worldly skepticism and savvy instincts to uncover the truth before scandal and unjust suspicion destroy Our Lady of Hope’s future. She’s up against a hostile local sheriff, an ex lover who’s never forgiven her for ‘abandoning’ their life together. She’s got no shortage of suspects with secrets outside and inside the monastery. And she’ll have to race the clock to stop one remorseless murderer before there’s more hell to pay…

Thief in Retreat (With: David Thurlo)

Sister Agatha is one of two extern nuns in the cloistered order at the Our Lady of Hope Monastery near the small desert town of Bernalillo, New Mexico. An investigative journalist before entering the monastery, now, as an extern it is Sister Agatha’s role to be the link between her cloistered sisters and the outside world. It is the skills from both her past and current lives that she must bring to the task assigned to her by the Archbishop of her diocese. At a former monastery, closed and sold by the diocese and now operating as a hotel and business retreat, there are a series of mysterious goings on. Several valuable pieces of southwestern folk art owned by the diocese and left on loan in the retreat have been stolen and replaced by replicas. After an art expert was called in to verify the remaining collection, he too disappeared without a trace. And then, there is the ghost the restless spirit rumored to wander the halls of the resort. At the request of the Archbishop, Sister Agatha’s must now discreetly investigate the doings at the former monastery and make sure that an unwanted scandal is not about to engulf the diocese. But she soon learns that something even more sinister than a ghost is loose in the retreat and it is up to Sister Agatha to unravel the puzzle before the consequences turn deadly.

Prey for a Miracle (With: David Thurlo)

Sister Agatha is an extern nun in the cloistered order at the Our Lady of Hope Monastery near a small New Mexican desert town. As such, Sister Agatha is the link between her cloistered sisters and the outside world. Usually this means running errands in the monastery’s slowly dying car dubbed the Anti Chrystler or their motorcycle, with Pax, the order’s German Shepard, in the side car. But sometimes it means something a bit more like now when the diocese is upset by reports of a young girl whose parents claim is receiving visitations from the Virgin Mary and providing insight into future events. Wanting neither to ignore a real miracle, nor give credence to what might be merely an attempt to defraud the faithful, they ask Sister Agatha to investigate. But her inquires are soon complicated when the girl herself disappears, apparently having been kidnapped, and Sister Agatha will need more than faith to bring her home.

False Witness (With: David Thurlo)

Our Lady of Hope Monastery can’t catch a break. Situated in rural New Mexico, the cloistered monastery squeaks by on donations and various craft and skilled jobs suited to their cloistered, contemplative life. But when a stolen SUV crashes through their outside walls, they are faced with financial demands that far exceed their means. So when a major donor offers a great deal of money for what seems a simple task, they are quick to accept. The very ill John Gutierrez is looking for his estranged niece, believed to be in the area, and having heard of Sister Agatha, the extern nun, and her investigative skills, he turns to them for help. All Sister Agatha has to do is track down the woman, and the monastery’s financial worries will be over.
But nothing is ever as simple as it seems. Sister Agatha’s investigation quickly lands her in the midst of a deadly situation, and it’s up to her to uncover the truth before it all takes a deadly turn for everyone involved.

The Prodigal Nun (With: David Thurlo)

‘Thief in Retreat is a thoroughly absorbing, sharply drawn story with a protagonist who is courageous, intelligent, and endearing. Sister Agatha, with her restored Harley Davidson motorcycle and ex police dog, Pax are a dynamite team that’s hard to beat I eagerly await Sister Agatha’s next adventure.’ Earlene Fowler, author of Delectable Mountains ‘Aimee and David Thurlo’s nimble plotting leaves readers turning pages while Our Lady of Hope Monastery’s compelling characters draw you into their richly textured world. Sister Agatha is a blessing and you’ll believe in Prey for a Miracle!’ Julia Spencer Fleming, Edgar finalist and author of To Darkness and to DeathOur Lady of Hope is an aging monastery run by a cloistered order in rural New Mexico. Perennially cash strapped for needed repairs and maintenance, when the local diocese offers to pay for a new water well it is, well, a godsend. But there’s a catch in return, they want the monastery to house a novice nun from a different order who needs a place to stay locally while she teaches at the Catholic school and an order to take responsibility for her while she s there. And Sister Josephine Sister Jo as she likes to be called is a handful. Loud, boisterous, free with her opinions, inappropriate, impulsive and snores loud enough to wake the dead, the young nun doesn t fit in well with the contemplative order and the older nuns of Our Lady of Hope. If the teeth grinding of the older nuns and the repetitive deep sighs of the Reverand Mother weren t enough, there s also the increasingly dangerous sounding threats that arrive at the monestary. Since Sister Agatha has been involved in her fair share of investigations, there s no lack of people who might harbor a grudge against her. But is she really the target? And is Sister Jo who arrived right before the threats began somehow entangled in this increasingly dangerous web?

Bad Samaritan (With: David Thurlo)

Sister Agatha of the Our Lady of Hope monastery in Bernalillo, New Mexico has become reknowned and occasionally infamous for her crime solving skills. Now she must bring her skills to bear on her most important case yet her friend and ally Sheriff Tom Green is a suspect in the brutal murder of his rival in the upcoming election.

Second Sunrise (With: David Thurlo)

Sixty years ago New Mexico patrolman Lee Nez and his partner foiled the hijacking of an American military convoy transporting nuclear material. At the end of the firefight, all of the soldiers and Lee’s partner were dead and Lee’s life was forever transformed. Now a nightwalker, the Navajo equivalent of a vampire, Lee lives with one foot in the human world and one in a world full of monsters. In 2002, Lee Nez is a cop again, now known as Leonard Hawk. His more than human abilities have made him the target of murderous Navajo witches skinwalkers who want his powers for themselves. When cool, capable FBI agent Diane Lopez questions Lee about an incident on the Navajo Reservation, Lee can’t tell her than the people he killed that night were skinwalkers out for his blood. Lee and Diane are attacked by a wolf pack. Diane is stunned when the wolf she shoots shapeshifts into a woman before dying. On the run, Lee tells Diane of his true nature and that he is convinced the vampire who made him one of the undead has returned to New Mexico in the guise of German Air Force pilot Wolfgang Muller. Muller has been much too close to the place where Lee hid the plutonium six decades ago a trap for the vampire, set with the inhuman patience of a nightwalker. Using police and FBI resources as well as Navajo healing magics and his own supernatural powers, Lee and Diane hunt for Muller and his undead offspring. Muller was to sell the nuclear material to the highest bidder what does he care if some humans blow up some other humans, as long as he can find fresh sources of blood? When Muller takes Diane captive, Lee swears he won’t lose another partner to the vampire’s evil. Second Sunrise is the first in a series of novels featuring Lee Nez, an undead hero who lives in a world where magic and monsters are all too real. The Thurlos’ skill at evoking of Southwestern settings and Navajo philosophies and lifestyles combines with their ability to create strong plots and solid characters in this fast paced, action filled story of supernatural suspense.

Blood Retribution (With: David Thurlo)

Lee Nez is a nightwalker a Navajo vampire. He’s also a New Mexico state police officer. Paired with sexy FBI agent Diane Lopez, Lee is tracking down violent smugglers who have killed two cops while bringing silver and turquoise across the border from Mexico. Shocked to discover that the smugglers are Navajo shapeshifters/skinwalkers, Lee and Diane realize they must wipe out the whole pack, and fast, before the skinwalkers realize there’s a nightwalker on their tails. Werewolves and vampires are deadly enemies…
. Complicating matters, Lee is being stalked by a pair of vampire assassins. He killed the leader of their clan and the survivors are bent on revenge. Blood for blood, as the saying goes.

Surrogate Evil (With: David Thurlo)

It’s frustrating for local law enforcement to come up against a piece of scum like Newton Glover. He’s dirty as hell, everyone knows that breaks into and vandalizes his neighbors’ homes; cheats and steals from everyone; folks suspect he deals drugs and po*rn. He’s even killed a man and gotten away with it. He gets away with all of it, hinting that he has a secret government background and that he’s ‘protected’ by the Powers That Be. Glover may finally have gone too far. He’s suspected of kidnapping a young teenage boy to use for child po*rn and a pedophile sex ring. There’s no proof, but this time, Albuquerque police are determined to nail Glover to the wall. Lee Nez, a Navajo state police officer, and Diane Lopez, an FBI agent, go undercover in Glover’s trailer park. Lee and Diane find that their growing attraction for each other is heightened by their posing as husband and wife, but do not allow that to distract them from their mission. They soon learn that not long ago, Glover’s neighbors tried to take the law into their own hands they dragged Glover from his home and beat him to death, leaving him in a shallow grave. To everyone’s shock, a few days later Glover reappeared with not a mark on him. Lee and Diane are no strangers to the supernatural Lee is a Navajo vampire and Diane’s last FBI partner was killed by a werewolf. Whatever Glover is, they’ll deal with it. When a second child goes missing and clues link her to Glover, Lee and Diane know they are running out of time. Glover may be some kind of un dead, but soon those children will be really dead, or worse.

Council of Fire

‘NAVAJO LEGEND TOLD OF A WARRIOR WHO MUST CHOOSE BETWEEN TRADITION AND BURNING DESIRE…
Hunter Blue eyes was sent to retrieve a stolen ceremonial dagger. Unbeknownst to him, security expert Lisa Garza was after it, too, to prove her father’s innocence. But Lisa’s savvy was no match for the brute force of those who wanted the priceless artifact…
and would gladly kill for it. She needed the mysterious Hunter as an ally. His network of high tech safe houses was puzzling…
especially in desolate northwestern New Mexico. Old stories spoke about the clandestine Brotherhood of Warriors. Was Hunter one of their modern day warriors, bound by honor and tradition to protect the tribe at all costs? The blazing chemistry between Hunter and Lisa was irresistible, but would their separate loyalties find a common purpose?’

Restless Wind

Ranger Blueeyes swore an oath to the Navajo and was duty bound to protect his people. Blessed with the golden eagle as his spiritual brother, the proud warrior had the ability to soar and overcome every obstacle. He would need those powers even more now with the Brotherhood under attack and one very tiny woman as the only defense. Anglo schoolteacher Dana Seles survived an unspeakable crime on the Navajo Nation and could expose a traitor within the tribe. Ranger had to convince Dana to cooperate with his investigation if he was to save her and defend his honor. But would the task be threatened by a building physical attraction gaining gale force?

Stargazer’s Woman

Highly regarded for his mystic prowess, Max Natoni took an oath to find lost people. For only he held the Navajo tribe’s deepest senses and the strength to awe those who beheld the man in the flesh. Yet even his heightened awareness couldn’t help him when it came to Kris Reynolds, who had her own sacred crusade to uphold…
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Kris had no need for secrets, yet the noble Navajo warrior was hers alone to unravel. He had the ability to guide her, but not without pushing Kris’s desire to uncharted territory. Bound by honor, together they tracked a killer with the same ardor that they stalked each other. While Kris yearned for justice, Max sought to restore harmony to his nation…
only to expose the passions of a woman who was more than his match.

The Shadow

Jonas Slowman knew that better than anyone. He’d left the Navajo Nation to fight overseas as a top level ranger in the military. His devotion to his heritage brought him back to the reservation, back to the Brotherhood. But they handed him his toughest mission yet.’Protect her at all costs,’ was the order from the tribe. That Jonas would do with his life. Except his attraction to Emily Atkins was a liability. She’d grown into a confident woman who now found herself the target of an implacable enemy, someone who was using her to get to the Navajo. Jonas was good at what he did, but he’d need his sharpest edge against a formidable foe. Because he couldn’t risk the consequences to the sacred Brotherhood…
or to the woman who’d stealthily claimed his heart.

Navajo Courage

Like a cougar on the hunt, Tribal Officer Luca Nakai was one with the wild steady, steely and fierce. Nothing like the cops Detective Valerie Jonas was used to. He didn’t carry the usual accessories, but he was a more formidable force than she’d ever seen. Not to mention gorgeous.

They were on the trail of a dangerous skinwalker who’d killed twice before and was pursuing another victim. Luca’s Navajo ways were invaluable to the investigation and casting a spell over the no nonsense Valerie, who’d never believed anything but hard facts. So how could the mystery and magic of this quiet man single handedly be cracking her protective shield right along with the case?

Alpha Warrior

Nick Blacksheep was an outsider to all: the police force, his community and the women he kept at arm’s length. Experienced in modern warfare, the tall Navajo’s imposing spirit recalled the intensity of his ancestors. His heart incapable of wounding, Nick was the fiercest protector beautiful Drew Simmons could have ever imagined–or desired.

With contract killers on her tail, the small-town librarian needed a cop who was true to his word. Though Blacksheep promised to safeguard Drew, he couldn’t have expected her compassion to thaw the ice in his veins. Now his greatest duty isn’t to himself, but the woman he welcomed into his home.

Twilight Warrior

The past could never truly be left behind, and Detective Travis Blacksheep had learned that lesson well. His past had brought him back to the Navajo Nation and kept him devoted to his ancestral traditions. But now a faded memory stood on his doorstep asking for help-the woman he had never been able to forget.

Laura Perry was back in Three Rivers to catch a serial killer, and she was willing to use herself as bait. Without Travis protecting her, she’d be an easy target. But keeping Laura alive was easier than keeping his hands off her. And with a relentless predator on their trail, distractions weren’t something either of them could afford….

Winter Hawk’s Legend

If Holly Gates must hide out in a snowbound New Mexico cabin, she’s glad it’s with Daniel Hawk. The fearless Navajo security expert has sworn to protect her from a relentless would be killer. But Daniel himself, a scintillating package of Native American tradition and all American sexiness, presents an even greater danger to Holly. She’s quickly falling for him and can only foresee heartbreak. Daniel, Holly knows, remains true to his Navajo upbringing. Unlike her, he craves no home or family just the same freedom as the great hawk. As they run for their lives, Holly’s courage and spirit spark in Daniel irresistible passion. Her heart may not be broken after all, if he can save her one last time.

Power of the Raven

Gene Redhouse believes in signs. But when Lori Baker literally jumps into his life, the Navajo wisdom he’s learned disappears. Lori is being stalked and she’s never been so frightened, or so alone. Although it seems they belong to different worlds, the connection between them is instant and intense. And if he can keep her alive long enough, he vows to explore every inch of her. With his chiseled features and powerful build, Gene is the safe harbor in Lori’s stormy sea. And yet with her past weighing her down, Lori must decide which is more dangerous: the stranger trailing her every step, or the one daring her to trust him.

The Spirit Line (With: David Thurlo)

Crystal Manyfeathers is caught between two worlds: her life at a modern American high school, and her life with the Dineh, her Navajo people, where spiritual ceremonies and traditions prevail. In deference to her father, Crystal prepares for her upcoming womanhood ceremony. But days before it starts, a valuable rug Crystal has been weaving for the event is mysteriously stolen. Her best friend Henry believes the theft is punishment for Crystal’s stubborn refusal to weave in the spirit line, a required tribute to the Navajo goddess Spider Woman. Despite their spiritual differences, Crystal and Henry launch a bold and dangerous search for the rug. Will they find it in time? And will Crystal at last learn to be at peace with her Navajo identity?

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