** Tied for First Place in the 2019 Douglas Preston Award for Published Fiction. ** Sponsored by The Albuquerque Museum Foundation. After twenty years of being an outcast, Jossenda Ledesma suddenly shows up at a family gathering. She latches onto Becca Sandoval, a relative newcomer to the clan, who is in the dark about the hostility surrounding the woman. Becca soon learns that Jossenda is not only belligerent and ill-mannered, but also a member of a questionable "religious" cult. To escape Jossenda's interference in her life, Becca must unmask the secrets of Jossenda's personal animosity, as well as the sinister activities of the cult.