Blue Mesa Author:Bonnie Smith On New Mexico's Blue Mesa, Navajo spirits, Mormon mysticism, a disenchanted woman, and two lonely sisters collide in a tragic tale of death. When Gayle Buchanan, a work-driven Utah attorney, receives a conciliatory letter from her estranged sister, Caroline, third wife of a Mormon polygamist, they both long for a new beginning--but Caroline do... more »esn't keep their rendezvous. Bewildered and angry, Gayle seeks answers from secret journals, a mystified co-worker, a Navajo shaman who fears dead spirits, and the polygamist husband who fears treachery. Afraid the law will follow on her heels, Patriarch Robert Harmon bans Gayle from Blue Mesa but she defies him. After a murderous attack which spills her blood in the red sand of the mesa, deceptions unravel in an ancient rite of blood atonement as Robert and the family face celestial consequences for burying old sins.« less