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Special Investigator for the Navajo Police Ella Clah, is torn between her new pregnancy and her dangerous career when feuding between traditionalist and modernist Navajo tribes heats up with sabotage, vandalism, and murder that she must quell.

Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah and her team must work a delicate joint investigation with the New Mexico police to identify four bodies found just outside the reservation borders, one of who turns out to be a construction firm owner who is believed to have been embezzling funds.

Before the new nuclear power plant can be built, the power company must help the Navajo reclaim a long-unused uranium mine. The plan is to collapse the old shafts and refill the area with new soil, but the first explosions trigger unplanned subsidiary collapses. Ella Clah, attending the dedication and purification ceremony, acts quickly when she sees a young child sliding into the exposed tunnels ...

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...

Serving as the link between her cloistered sisters and the outside world at Our Lady of Hope Monastery in the New Mexico desert, Sister Agatha is asked to investigate when a young girl claims to be receiving visitations from the Virgin Mary.