Billy Moon — R. Allen Chappell

Book 13 in Chappell's legacy series of standalone novels set in the heart of Diné Bikeyah. A frantic young girl flees the reservation to escape the horrors of abuse at the hands of her adoptive family. Despising her white father they blame for the death of the girl's mother. The man is driven out only to be found dead along a lonely stretch of dirt road. Suffering through a long and desperate struggle on the back streets of Albuquerque, the girl somehow manages to survive, and against all odds, eventually claws her way up from the depths of degradation to a life of success beyond her wildest imagining. Now, these many years later, the woman's traumatic past still weighs on her every waking moment. Consumed with dreams of revenge she returns to the reservation. Calling on Charlie Yazzie, the Legal Services Investigator is finally convinced to look into her father's still unsolved murder. Longtime friends Harley Ponyboy and Thomas Begay are quick to join in, then find they too, have become entwined in the murderous intrigue . . . Billy Moon is back!