Spirits of the Saguaro (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798278487746)

Claire Caldwell has finally settled into her strange new normal. Two months after the Robert Harrison incident, she's learned to trust her spirit fox's warnings and Rosa's ghostly advice as she runs her animal sanctuary in the desert.

But some visitors bring their own darkness to Perdido Springs.

When famous artist Aurora Brightwater arrives to paint the "desert spirits," she brings more than just her canvases and her crystalline laugh. She brings grudges, theft, and a cruelty that hides behind flowing scarves and talk of universal energy. Then Aurora turns up dead in her studio, a palette knife through her heart, and everyone she's wronged becomes a suspect. The artist who steals others' work... dead. The documentary filmmaker who seems cursed... filming everything. The exhausted ex-husband she abandoned... watching from the shadows.

As Claire investigates with her veterinarian boyfriend Sam, she discovers Aurora left a trail of destroyed careers and stolen dreams across the Southwest. But in a town where the dead talk, the dolls in the motel have their own agenda, and something that used to be human roams the desert at night, finding the truth means distinguishing between those who wanted Aurora gone and whoever actually made it happen.

In Perdido Springs, the veil is thin, the spirits are watching...

Welcome back to the desert, where inspiration can be deadly.