The author of the Walter Award-winning Man Made Monsters and the Caldecott Medal-winning Chooch Helped delivers a thriller that reads like Holes for a new generation—a murder mystery interwoven with Cherokee history and culture. Diane and her family have moved onto their grandfather's ranch in the hills of Oklahoma. There's any number of problems she can see with her new situation, but the main one is Grandfather Wilson is not a good man. But with her sisters and her parents—and the opportunity to reconnect with her Cherokee heritage—it's at least manageable. Until a strange girl shows up on the ranch and Diane’s life is changed forever. For she soon realizes that death lurks within the beautiful prairie grass around them... and a terrible secret that will tear their family apart if she lets it.
Author
Andrea L. Rogers is a writer from Tulsa, Oklahoma and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. She graduated from the Institute of American Indian and Alaskan Arts with an MFA in Creative Writing. Currently, she is splitting time between Fayetteville, Arkansas, where she is a Ph.d. student at the University Arkansas and Fort Worth, Texas, where her family lives. Her book Mary and the Trail of Tears: A Cherokee Removal Survival Story was named an NPR Best Book of 202) by both NPR and American Indians in Children’s Literature. Ms. Rogers is on the Board of the Fort Worth Public Library. A member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, she is currently revising a middle grade mystery, writing an adult literary horror novel, and working on a series of picture book manuscripts. All text and images © Andrea L. Rogers 2018 – 2021, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.
