by Clifford Mae Henderson

An unlikely posse comes together to help a neurodivergent, landlocked pirate called Captain Eddie who’s been wrongfully accused of murdering another transient. There’s Ash, the narrator, a fed-up middle-aged lesbian who lost her brother to a fatal overdose; Crow, a twenty-eight-year-old eccentric with high ideals and questionable personal hygiene; love-interest Reina, saver of lost animals; Ida, a short-statured octogenarian who belongs to an ancient mystical order of sorceresses who, like whales, communicate through sound, and lastly, Captain Eddie’s loyal first mate, a pit bull named Apollo.

Their efforts take a turn when the murdered transient is revealed to be the estranged sister of Country Western legend, Wanda Wiles, and the case goes high profile. Set in the fictional town of Tres Ojos, where tech millionaires are forced to pass by homeless encampments on their way to trendy kava bars, these ordinary souls find themselves leading extraordinary lives.