The Lost Tribe

<p>Two years ago Guy Thornton was enjoying life on his ranch in southern Arizona with his growing family. Now still reeling from the effects of a domestic tragedy he's hit rock bottom in the northern Arizona town of Flagstaff. His Kaibab Paiute friend has had enough of Guy's drunken sorrow and violent outbursts and jokingly suggests Guy find a cliff on the Kiabab Reservation.</p><p>Unfortunately Guy takes the suggestion to heart. He sets off dressed as a beggar hoping to get a free ride from a Mormon who mistakes him for a Nephite described in the <em>Book of Mormon</em> as a member of The Lost Tribe of Israel. Meanwhile Guy's eldest daughter Sally-compelled by her mother's belief that <em>she </em>would be the one to find him-tracks her father through his former Arizona haunts.</p><p>During Guy's trip he stumbles upon an abandoned child and is befriended by an Elder of the church. Together they undertake the return of the girl to her family in the farthest northern section of the state above the North Rim of the Grand Canyon the setting of the novel's stunning conclusion.</p><p> </p><p>Book Eight of The Arizona Series-novels intertwining Native American mythologies with western/adventure/romances set in the modern American West.</p>