Vanessa Lillie understands what it is like to be an indigenous woman living in Oklahoma. She is a member of the Cherokee Nation and that is where she grew up. It is also the setting for her new thriller. The year is 2008 and the Oxycontin pill mills were running full blast. Mexican
meth was pouring across the border. In indigenous communities in places like Oklahoma the combination of poverty, lack of opportunity, greed, and drug addiction was wreaking havoc on the local population. Indigenous women were disappearing, they still are.
Lillie distills these potent themes into a first rate thriller that will leave readers gasping. A very impressive novel.
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