Stolen Sisters

Sally has returned to New Mexico to reunite with her Navajo family. Tragedy strikes when her phone rings, and she hears her daughter's horrifying words, "Mom, Chooli's gone!" Fifteen-year-old Chooli Begay has vanished from an Albuquerque mall. Can Sally use her strong psychic connection with her granddaughter to rescue her before it's too late?

A Navajo prayer circle supports grief-stricken family members. A group of university students with technical expertise search the dark web for information on missing native girls, while fear for their own safety intensifies. A Navajo shaman uses his native lessons to put Sally in a trance. She discovers she can see and hear Chooli talking with a young Apache mother and two girls from a South Dakota Sioux reservation. Two despicable men hold the girls' prisoner in a filthy cave. Time is measured in heartbeats as rescuers race to find the missing girls.

A gripping story of a search for missing indigenous girls from New Mexico, Arizona and South Dakota. Will Sally find them before a plane takes them to Mexico bordellos?

Sally's story describes indigenous family members searching for lost wives, sisters, and daughters in the southwest. It is a story frequently hidden in the dark, now coming into the light.

Stolen Sisters is the third book in Sally's trilogy and a stand-alone mystery/thriller.

About the Author: A desire to write a story about my life for my grandchildren became a Memoir, The Life That Made Me, ME, in 2016. I wrote some family history, my philosophy on life, about people who influenced who I am today, and stories of my travels.

At the end of the book, I wrote about my three-week backpacking trip to China with three other ladies. One story about China became a book of a retired schoolteacher finding romance while traveling in China.

Sally is the star character in China Strong and Navajo Strong, my second novel. While writing Navajo Strong, I came across a newspaper story about the missing and murdered indigenous girls and women in the west. I knew that would be my next book. COVID and the sudden loss of my son delayed my third novel.

I spent nights dreaming of Scott, feeling the pain of my loss. The next morning, I sat in front of my computer writing and rewriting the story of a mother's, and grandmother's loss of a child. Their heartache, and Chooli's fear, became real.