Desert Trilogy

A hidden treasure, an ancient secret, and a voracious international gold mining company determined to exploit a sacred site. 

Madeline Wainright, a paleo-anthropologist, stumbles into the crossfire between a crack unit of corporate mercenaries, a local crime gang, a charismatic tribal leader, and the mysterious Harly, who suddenly arrives on her doorstep to drag her back into the desert. 

Will she choose to reveal her discovery or send the site back into oblivion for another thousand years? Will she collaborate with the criminals offering protection from the thugs sent by the gold miner, or report the whole bunch to the police? How will she deal with her emerging attraction to Harly, her father’s shadowy colleague? As the confrontation hurtles toward its inevitable climax, Madeline’s ethical and scientific assumptions, her beliefs, and indeed, her very humanity, will be tested to the limit as she is forced to make impossible life and death decisions changing her forever.