A grandmother from rural New Mexico tries to save her at-risk grandson and is herself swept up in a series of criminal acts in today's Old Town Albuquerque.

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Fortuna is a tall, elegant grandmother from Northern New Mexico who is living on the streets of Albuquerque after fleeing her abusive husband. She witnesses the aftermath of a crime and is entangled in the lives of the criminal and others who become connected to him. These include Gus, a young man determined to leave his troubled past behind for the love of a damaged girl; Rod, an aging rake who mistakenly believes that Albuquerque will be a soft place to fall; and Juan, a promising young man on the rise whose bad choice of companions traps him in a criminal enterprise. The story unfolds in and around Old Town Albuquerque and was inspired by actual events there. The fates of the characters—who lives, who dies, and which lives are changed forever—unspool over a period of a few summer days.

Kay Cordtz has been a nonfiction writer for fifty years, working as a newspaper and magazine reporter, press secretary to New Mexico federal, state and local officials and a science writer at two national laboratories. She also writes about music and musicians for several magazines. This is her first work of fiction.

Softcover:
6 x 9
ISBN: 978-1-63293-678-3
166 pp.,$19.95

eBook:
ISBN: 978-1-61139-746-8
166 pp.,$4.99