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Wild Indigo
Sandi Ault
INTRODUCING 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 . . .
Bureau of Land Management Agent Jamaica Wild has witnessed
the death of a Tanoah Pueblo man trampled to death by
stampeding buffalo. The tribe has declared 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
the welts on the man's body, and the 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, that she will 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 will
discover 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 Jamaica Wild Novel)
Berkley (Prime Crime), January 2007
Featuring: Jamaica Wild
320 pages ISBN: 0425213692
Hardcover
$23.95
Also by Sandi Ault:
Wild Inferno, February 2008
Wild Indigo, February 2008
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