When a young woman is found dead in the basement of the
university library--with an illustration from a valuable
astronomy book beside her--Claire recognizes the victim as
someone she had met, but whose name she never knew. To
learn more, Claire must descend into the haunting world of
the homeless in Albuquerque, where the dead woman was known
simply as Maia. It is a name with special meaning, the same
as that of a mythical Greek woman who fled to the sky to
escape her attacker. The illustration leads Claire to a
secretive commune in Taos where Maia grew up--and may have
suffered terrible abuse. But someone doesn't want Claire to
shed too much light on the shadows of the past--and will do
anything to stop her...
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