Genre:
Mystery
Themes:
Found Family
Growing Older
Mature Lead 40+
Murder / Crime / Serial Killer
Mystery / Suspense
Pet / Wild Animal
Quirky Characters
Romance After 50
Self-Discovery
Starting Over
Heat Level:
Medium (sex scenes are included and may use mildly graphic description)
Archetypes:
Law Enforcement
Retired
Shamam / Healer
Geographic Location:
United States: Pacific
Setting:
Farm / Ranch
Lake / Cabin
Mountain
Sacred Space / Place of Worship
Small Town / Rural
Wilderness / Outback
Sexual / Gender Identity:
Lesbian
Protagonist Identity:
Latinx / Hispanic
Trigger/Content Warning:
Incest
Touch of the Bone
By Baxter Clare Trautman
There's love in them 'thar hills!
After a lifetime spent steeped in death L.A. Franco has retired from the LAPD and has plunged head first into living—but separating her two worlds isn’t as easy as she hoped.
Following the death of “Sal” Saladino, a recluse and mentor with uncanny healing abilities Frank is busy sloughing off her old identity as a cop and reluctantly growing into the new skin of a healer. She doesn’t understand her newfound abilities, but the patients she sees believe in them.
When a ranch hand brings her an old journal of Sal’s, Frank’s world begins to shift uncomfortably. The pages of the journal describe an injustice Sal was too cowardly to confront. And as Frank begins to work her way through the pages, her cop instincts kick in—but she’s done with that phase of her life and isn’t willing to go back. However, when one of her new patients comes to her with mysterious neck pain, she begins to suspect the ailment might be related to the murder Sal has alluded to.
As Frank slowly learns to trust her newfound abilities—and her new lover—she begins to unravel the murder in the journal. When she suspects who the murderer is, Frank must choose whether she will confront them and the injustice in her old role as a cop or let bygones be bygones and continue on her new path as a healer.