Buried Seeds

Private investigator Yolanda Avila emerges from pandemic isolation much like everyone else, adjusting to a new normal. But there's nothing normal about a dead body in a pool of blood. Police suspect the victim's undocumented cousin Gamaliel Campamoche or his employer Kinji Abe, a WWII American concentration camp survivor. Yolanda must find proof of their innocence before one of them gets deported and the other ends up unjustly incarcerated--again.

But that means finding the real killer. To do that, Yolanda and her BIPOC crew must wade into the underside of gentrifier greed and activist angst, where things are not always what they seem and where good people can go bad. Bad enough to kill.

As the case escalates, so do the dangers, and so does the juju that Yolanda thought she'd left behind. Are her mother and uncle again trying to protect her from the beyond? Or is her mind playing tricks on her? She needs to figure it out before more people die.