Our heroine hasn’t seen the love interest after he walked away at the end of the first book. Now, he’s missing, and has left her a cryptic message, telling her not to follow him. But does she listen?

I love how the author treats the setting almost like an important character. For instance, besides the description of the landscape, we know it’s the reason the Diné survived an apocalypse. It also rubs our heroine the wrong way when she has ...