Stolen Sisters (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781088115787)

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.