Author, Nature Lover,
New Mexican
“You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.” Anthony De Mello
DEBUT NOVELDaughter of the Weeds
In a small town in northern New Mexico, every generation of the Delgado family has produced a murderer for four hundred years. Genna and her two sisters are raised in the shadow of their mother’s murder amid rumors about what really happened that fateful night, and suspicions about which one of the three sisters would grow up to be a killer.
Genna flees the village at seventeen, building a life far from the disgrace of the Delgado name. But when her younger sister, Gabbi, is killed in a hit-and-run accident, she returns home only to discover her sister’s death was no accident. Still reeling from her loss, Genna is asked by her Tía Bianca—a powerful healer of soul sickness—and her older sister Francesca to become the guardian of Gabbi’s young daughter, María.
As Genna struggles with that life-altering decision, buried memories of her own mother’s murder, superstitions about the darkness contained in the Delgado genes, and lies about her family’s past complicate her path forward.
Meanwhile, the sociopathic son of a wealthy family claims María as his own, hoping to secure his family's fortune by proving he has an heir. If he succeeds, María will lose the only family she’s ever known. When the man turns up dead, Genna becomes entangled in a murder investigation that threatens everything she has built. To save herself and her niece, she must confront the superstitions of her childhood, buried memories of her own mother’s murder, and the true cost of justice.
