Megan Montoya has come to New Mexico with her daughter, Lizzie, to begin a career in photography. One morning she opens her newspaper and five jagged stones clatter to the floor. A jeweler identifies them as emeralds, and an attractive archeologist believes they might be the legendary emerald arrowheads used by the Pima Indians four centuries ago to lure away the Spaniards. Megan's paperboy goes missing, and her house is searched. Tension escalates as Megan finds her only client is hiding something, and that the man she is falling in love with may have ulterior motives. When Lizzie is kidnapped, Megan becomes embroiled in a separatist plot, bargaining with a cabal's crazed leader to spare her daughter's life.Eye of the Mountain God is Penny Rudolph's fourth crime novel. Combining a cast of maverick characters and nonstop action, she offers a unique and captivating story about one mother's love and the causes that some people are willing to die, and kill, for.

Megan Montoya has come to New Mexico with her daughter, Lizzie, to begin a career in photography. One morning she opens her newspaper and five jagged stones clatter to the floor. A jeweler identifies them as emeralds, and an attractive archeologist believes they might be the legendary emerald arrowheads used by the Pima Indians four centuries ago to lure away the Spaniards. Megan's paperboy goes missing, and her house is searched. Tension escalates as Megan finds her only client is hiding something, and that the man she is falling in love with may have ulterior motives. When Lizzie is kidnapped, Megan becomes embroiled in a separatist plot, bargaining with a cabal's crazed leader to spare her daughter's life.Eye of the Mountain God is Penny Rudolph's fourth crime novel. Combining a cast of maverick characters and nonstop action, she offers a unique and captivating story about one mother's love and the causes that some people are willing to die, and kill, for.