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Andi Marquette


Land of Entrapment
1st Book in the New Mexico Series

       

K.C. Fontero left Albuquerque for Texas in the wake of a bitter break-up, headed for a teaching and research post-doc at the University of Texas, Austin. With a doctorate in sociology and expertise in American white supremacist groups, she’s well on her way to an established academic life. But the past has a way of catching up with you and as K.C. spends a summer helping her grandfather on his central Texas farm, her past shows up in the form of her ex, Albuquerque lawyer Melissa Crown, whose younger sister Megan has gone missing, hooked up with a man

 
Melissa suspects is part of an underground white supremacist group.

Reluctantly, K.C. returns to Albuquerque to try to find Megan, but she finds a lot more than that as she sorts through her complicated past with Melissa, confronts her growing feelings for Megan’s friend and neighbor Sage Crandall, and delves deeper into the racist and apocalyptic beliefs of the mysterious group she’s trying to find before it’s too late for Megan.



State of Denial
2nd Book in the New Mexico Series

       

Albuquerque Police Detective Chris Gutierrez is not having a good day. On the scene of a murdered young man buried near the Rio Grande, she has to put up with the other detective assigned to the case, the homophobic and sexist Dale Harper. As if things weren't uncomfortable enough between the two detectives, they soon find out that the young victim was gay, and the trail leads Chris and Harper to another unsolved murder whose victim was a young gay man. Soon, their suspect is Charles Mumford, a popular minister at a local mega-church who has spent years working with ex-gay groups.


Enlisting the research skills, networks, and expertise of sociologist and long-time best friend K.C. Fontero, Chris works to build the case against the minister, all too aware what mistakes in such a potentially explosive and high-profile investigation could cost her and the police department. Chris also has to face her growing feelings for attorney Dayna Carson, but the dangerous nature of police work and Chris's own reticence about romantic relationships are destined to collide. Struggling with her attraction to Dayna and the complexity of a difficult case, Chris is drawn into an ominous and potentially deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a man who harbors dark secrets and who will kill to protect them. Will Chris outsmart a diabolical murderer - or become another victim?



Friends in High Places

       

Outlaw Torri Rendego buried her Academy past and military training when the Empire collapsed and the hated Coalition came to power. She and her crew run shipments of whatever products her clients want–most often, illegal. The latest contract brings her and the crew of the Far Seek to the mining colony of Newburg on Old Earth, where she’s got to somehow acquire a shipment of highly prized black opals for a client who may or may not be Coalition, beneath the scrutiny of increased Coalition security. But somebody’s messing with the markets, which puts Torri and her crew in a dangerous position and in the seething streets of Newburg, where everyone’s

on the take, knowing who to trust is often a matter of life and death.

Torri’s good at what she does, and she enjoys outsmarting the Coalition every chance she has, but she certainly doesn’t count on Kai Tinsdale, her closest Academy colleague, being assigned to Newburg as part of the elite teams breaking up smuggling rings. Kai and Torri share a bond forged years earlier during their Academy days but as the Coalition rose to power, Kai chose to remain in the military, and thus under Coalition directive. In spite of the political gulf between them, Torri and Kai have managed to maintain a connection, but that fragile truce will be put to another test in the mean streets of Newburg and in the hot, dark mines beneath.




Andi Marquette's Biography

Andi Marquette was born in Albuquerque and grew up in Colorado. After a couple of academic degrees in anthropology, she wandered back to Albuquerque and completed a Ph.D. in history. She fell into editing in 1993 and has been obsessed with words ever since. That may or may not be a good thing. She currently resides in Colorado, where she edits, writes, and cultivates her strange obsession with New Mexico chile.

She’s busy finishing up the third installment in her New Mexico series with Regal Crest Enterprises, The Ties that Bind (due out November, 2009) and working on the second book in her space opera series with Bedazzled Ink as well as researching the fourth New Mexico book with RCE and getting ready to turn Land of Entrapment into an audiobook with Dog Ear Audio. And yes, she does question her sanity on a daily basis so you don’t have to.

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