Antelope Girl

Antelope Girl is "Girl With The Dragon Tatoo" meets criminal land grabbers and the mighty Indian spirits of the American Southwest. Juniper Hatch, the outcast daughter of eminent archaeologist Jenny Hatch, returns home to the ancient village of Oraibi on Second Mesa after a short but distinguished military career in cyber warfare, fighting against the Russians in the Balkans, only to find a treacherous Russian oligarch with connections to the highest levels of the U.S. government, proposing to build the Grand Canyon Esplanade Resort on desolate Navajo land above the Grand Canyon, complete with gondolas running to the bottom of the sacred Little Colorado River, the spiritual epicenter of the Hopi world. Using the latest computer viruses, Juniper hacks her way along a deadly trail that leads to crooked Navajo politicians, a Russian mobster who murders his enemies with a lethal poison, and the mysterious RPS Global Security Company that supplies mercenaries and weapons to unsavory clients around the world. Juniper is aided in her dangerous struggle by her mentor the Hopi Sun Chief, and a young Navajo rebel named Lydon Za who becomes the reincarnation of Dawn Boy and the love of her life. Together, Juniper and Lyndon battle the terrible powers of the modern world and unleash Masaw, the Skeleton Kachina of the Little Colorado, in the name of the Sun Way.