Animal Dreams

Cosima "Codi" Noline, feeling lost and at the end of her rope after personal and professional failures, reluctantly returns to her tiny hometown of Grace, Arizona, after a fourteen-year absence. She has come back to care for her ailing and distant father, Doc Homer, a physician who is showing signs of memory loss. Codi takes a job teaching high school biology and begins to uncover the mysteries of her past, including a painful high school experience and the circumstances surrounding her mother's early death. While her adventurous sister, Hallie, is helping with crop cultivation in Nicaragua, Codi reconnects with a handsome Apache trainman, Loyd Peregrina, and finds herself drawn into a community effort. She learns that the town's lifeblood, the water supply, is being contaminated by a local copper-mining company, threatening the community's survival. The novel is a story of self-discovery, memory, and commitment, blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American legends as Codi confronts her history and finds a sense of belonging.

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