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While recovering from a double mastectomy journalist Jeneva Leopold seekssolitude and healing at her uncles idle gold mine in the sagebrush desert ofEastern Oregon. Hiking the rocky ridges swimming in the old mining pond andignoring the outside world save for occasional letters Jeneva gains strengthand a new will to live.As her interest in life returns so do Jenevas journalistic habits. And thoughthe locals are at first puzzeled by all of her questions she soon gets to knowa young woman rancher various miners a quirky old artifact hunter and anitinerant priest and medieval scholar. These people and other colorful localsgive her the inside story on living in the harsh landscape of sagebrush andcoyotes and revealing how the old west is changing under new economics andregulation.But the Oregon desert is also a place of secrets. The more Jeneva talks withthe locals the more she wonders about her uncles mysterious disappearance.Why did her uncle and her mother stop talking so many years ago? Does she knowmore than she is acknowledging? The murder of a young miner sends her on aquest for answers leading her to an elderly woman artist living in a convertedchicken house a tonguetied funeral home owner and a swashbuckling sheriffwith rulebending tendencies.The appalling business she uncovers shocks the region and nearly claims herlife but it also brings closure to an old family misunderstanding and theenigma of her uncles fate. «
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