Arthur Nakai, now armed with his newly minted Private Investigator license, has visitors on his doorstep at White Mesa. Melanie Manygoats and her young son arrive on a cold winter’s day seeking his help locating her missing daughter, whom she fears has become one of the stolen. Arthur accepts and soon finds himself wading through the world of teenage prostitution where he discovers April has already been sold to a man known to everyone in the trade as The Cuban. Running underage girls is his business, and the revolving door of the flesh trade is always rotating, Meanwhile, a 15-year-old girl goes missing, her bicycle found hidden among scrub brush under a bridge over an empty desert wash. Are the cases related or are they simply part of a bigger, more horrifying picture plaguing Arthur's beloved Dinétah?

About the Author

Award-winning author MARK EDWARD LANGLEY was instilled with a love for the American West by his father at a young age. Upon revisiting it throughout adulthood, his connection to the land and its people became that much more irrevocable. After spending almost thirty years working for companies, he retired at the end of 2016 and began to focus on writing his first Arthur Nakai Novel, Path of the Dead, which was released August 14th, 2018 by Blackstone Publishing. His 2nd novel, Death Waits in the Dark, was released August 4th of 2020. Mark’s third book in his Arthur Nakai series, When Silence Screams, is slated for release August 2021. He and his wife, Barbara, live in Indiana and spend their time between there and New Mexico. Mark is currently working on his fourth book in his series, BROKEN GLASS.