The Clovis Incident — Pari Noskin Taichert

ALIENATED BY DEATH

Freshly unemployed New Mexico PR director Sasha Solomon travels to the tiny town of Clovis to bid on a hush-hush project aimed at competing with neighboring Roswell for the alien/UFO tourist dollar. Arriving in Clovis, Sasha stops by her old friend Mae King's cattle ranch -- and discovers the body of a dead pilot from a nearby air force base floating in a water trough.

Mae, a true believer in the "visitors among us" theory, doesn't recognize the dead man...but does identify her diary and nightgown clutched in his stiff fingers. When the victim turns out to be a top foreign military officer, Sasha -- contrary to Mae -- thinks this crime is quite earthly in origin. Unfortunately, Mae is now the prime suspect. Certain that the truth really is out there, Sasha butts heads with the locals, the law and Mae's vindictive relatives to unlock more than a few deadly secrets in Clovis.