When small-time criminal Albert Lethewood is murdered, he leaves his daughter Astrid a house in the town of Indigo Springs. Suspecting a scam, she nevertheless moves in. . .  and there discovers a cache of magical objects. With the help of two friends: dependable, heroic Jacks Glade and volatile Sahara Knax, she works to puzzle out the nature and purpose of the magical objects.  But Albert's killer is still out there. Worse, the mystical power is deeply seductive. . . and Sahara might be willing to risk everything, even Astrid herself, if she can control the emerging power.

     A.M. Dellamonica is a writer from Vancouver, B.C. whose short fiction has been appearing in science fiction magazines and anthologies since the 1990s.  She teaches writing through the UCLA Extension Writers' Program.