1–What is the title of your latest release? BLOOD SISTERS 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Blood Sisters is about a Cherokee archeologist who has left her rural Oklahoma hometown but is called back when a woman’s remains are found near a crime scene she barely escaped as a girl, and soon after, her sister goes missing. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? Blood Sisters is set in Miami, Oklahoma, in the Northeast corner of the state, which is where I grew up and my parents still live. My main character returns to her hometown of Picher, Oklahoma, which is now a ghost town that once belonged to the Quapaw tribe. The story is set in 2008, but the issues impacting the story go all the way to when minerals were discovered there in 1913. The land and mineral rights were stolen by the government and big mining companies from tribal members. For thirty years, billions were made, in fact half the lead and zinc used in World War I came from those mines. Once the industry went bust, the Quapaw tribe and people who’d moved to Picher were stuck in what…

