Call Me the Canyon: A Novel

Madolen yearns to see life in the world outside the red walls of her canyon. Leaving her reclusive gold-panning father, she is adopted by a kind Mormon family, but the unexpected death of a member of that family forces her to leave them. Now on her own, she finds work as a canyon guide for a handsome young Easterner and falls in love with him. But will life with him replace her canyon?

In the background, the lure of gold and the dangerous beauty of the West's great canyons and mountains always call Madolen, along with the voices of her ancestors--the Navajo Old ones--and the song of Madolen's own canyon.