I’ve got sixteen published books, across several genres—commercial women’s fiction, memoir, YA, thrillers, historical fiction. Some were published by major houses. Others, I published myself. They’re not all alike, but they all come from the same place: survival, truth, and a deep love for the stories we carry. Here are a few that still matter most to me now.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Featured Book
Where Rabbits Gathered (2025)
Tome Hill Press
Historical Fiction | New Mexico Fiction
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Set in the ancient Tewa city of Puye, Where Rabbits Gathered follows six generations of Puebloan Indigenuos women across the first century of Spanish colonization in what's now New Mexico, beginning with a young astronomer-apprentice named Blue Water. As drought, invasion, and cultural erasure threaten their way of life, these women—mothers, daughters, dreamers—hold fast to memory, land, and the unbroken heart-call of their ancestors.
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Cry (2025)
Piñata Books
Young Adult | Paranormal
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When 16-year-old goth filmmaker Grace Martinez is struck by lightning in Austin, Texas, her classmate Blake saves her life—and unlocks something else. Grace can suddenly see ghosts, including Mohammad, a Muslim teen who appears with a noose around his neck and cryptic messages encoded in 80s song lyrics. As she navigates a splintering family, shaky friendships, and the fallout of surviving the impossible, Grace uncovers a web of secrets—some belonging to the dead, and some terrifyingly close to home. With help from her ancestral spirit guide La Llorona (yes, that La Llorona), Grace must solve a mystery no one else believes in, in a state where truth is often treated like treason.
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🛒 Preorder coming soon from Piñata Books | ISBN 979-8-89375-026-3
📖 Ages 15+ | 200 pages | Release date: October 31, 2025​
Jodi Luna Series
Hollow Beasts (2023)
Thomas & Mercer
Eco-Thriller | Mystery | Southwest Noir
Amazon Editor’s Pick
Washington Post Top 10 Mystery of 2023
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After a long stint in academia, Jodi Luna returns to her ancestral homeland in northern New Mexico to start over as a wildlife officer. In her first week on the job, she nabs a poacher—who retaliates by stalking Jodi and her teenage daughter. What begins as a local dispute spirals into a deadly cat-and-mouse game through the desert mountains, where Jodi uncovers a white supremacist militia kidnapping women of color to earn status in their terrorist network. When the local sheriff looks the other way, Jodi teams up with a rookie deputy named Ashley Romero to bring them down. But protecting the land means more than knowing its trails—it means risking everything for the people who belong to it.
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📺 TV series adaptation in development with 20th Century Television
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Blood Mountain (2024)
Thomas & Mercer
Psychological Thriller | Snowbound Mystery
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Jodi Luna—former poetry professor, reluctant game warden—is still reeling from her husband’s death and the fallout from her last case. When her new friend, actress Claudia Evans, reports a missing relative after a remote family gathering in the northern New Mexico wilds, Jodi heads out to help. But a sudden blizzard strands them all at a fishing lodge, and when bodies start turning up—mauled and bloody—Jodi realizes this is no accident. It’s not a bear. It’s not the cold. It’s murder. Blood Mountain is an isolated-wilderness thriller where grief is a predator, and survival demands more than just knowing how to track.
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📺 TV series adaptation in development with 20th Century Television
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