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As Neil settles into her new house in Albuquerque's North Valley, she befriends 13-year-old Cheyanne Morales, who lives in a near by trailer with her mother and her more radiant half-brother. Cheyanne's teenage angst is complicated by the pressures that gang culture imposes on her and her peers. Neil gets a harrowing glimpse of these pressures whenever a 15-year-old is shot to death not definately not Neil's new home. The cops believe a rival gang member, but past due one night, a battered Cheyanne turns up at Neil's entry way to confess that she was the shooter. The government bodies are reluctant to simply accept Cheyanne's story-as a minor she'd get only a slap on the wrist - and Neil is dubious too, but she agrees to symbolize her young friend. With Cheyanne in custody, Neil uncovers chilling evidence that the girl's family and friends plan to take justice into their own hands. Only Neil and her lover, a child, can prevent another tragedy from playing out along the ditches of her new community. With its complicated, timely story, deft characterizations, and artful evocations of place, Ditch Rider confirms Judith Vehicle Gieson's reputation among the foremost writers of Southwestern suspense.
