Ashland, OR: Blackstone Publishing, (2022). SIGNED first edition - A novel by this award-winning Mexican-American and Indigenous poet and novelist, who grew up in a small border community in the Imperial Valley in the Southern California desert, "a genre-blurring psychological thriller with an unstable Latina & indigenous mama protagonist that weaves together threads of folk Magick and the horror of everyday life in the margins." Author Ana Castillo called this "a delectable spellbinder. . . a conjuring of equal parts murder mystery, brujera, sex and romance, hauntings and terror, femme empowerment, all with a dash of Northern New Mexican cooking. " SIGNED on the title page. 276 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third suspense novel - "Near the border of Mexico, in a dusty, has-been Texas oil town named Paradise, a shrieking black tornado whips across dried lawns and down desolate streets, and people are dying - but not just from natural causes." A world-weary journalists sets out to discover what is going on. "Evoking a time and a place that are uniquely American, [this] is a steady, subtle, tightly woven narrative-a suspense thriller of immorality and murder." 269 pp. Dust jacket by Wendell Minor. ISBN: 0-671737228.