Following a two-year prison stint, Walker Walker returns to his family’s New Mexico ranch where Lee Ann, his pious older sister, takes care of their ailing mother, raises two sons, and grapples with the unethical workplace demands at the county commissioner’s office. Walker immediately takes to his old ways, instigating a property scam with his ex-wife and former cellmate. His reckless life careens into Lee Ann’s careful one, forcing her to examine their sibling bond and question her beliefs.
Bev Magennis was born in Toronto, Canada. After a long career as a visual artist, she began writing in her sixties, inspired by a remote region of New Mexico where she lived for seventeen years. Bev was awarded a 2010 PEN Center Emerging Voices Fellowship and received a Norman Mailer Fiction Fellowship in 2011.