Chasing Dust

Written by a Florida local!

A HOUSE IN THE DESERT, AN OLD JOURNAL, AND THE SECRETS THEY KEEP.

Cali Clarke is a successful product designer in San Francisco—or at least she was until losing her mother. Since then, nothing feels quite right. But when the efforts to settle her mother’s estate reveal a secret house in New Mexico, more questions arise. Her only hope for answers is in that house. She has to go.

The high desert is a complete change of pace for Cali, forcing her to down-shift from incessant emails to watching literal paint dry. The only reprieve comes from befriending a vivacious coffee shop owner, and distracting herself with Alex Rodriguez, the handsome, and hopefully single, artist serving drinks at the local bar.

But when Cali unearths her mother’s journal from thirty years prior, she realizes the woman isn’t who she thought. Each moment Cali feels at home in New Mexico is quickly undone by her own family secrets. Answers about the past are so close, and she must decide if the glimpses into her mother’s life are worth the pain they stir up in her own.

With friendship, love, and a career on the line, can Cali make peace with her past or will her hunt for the truth destroy her future?

For lovers of Katherine Center, Carley Fortune and Emily Henry, Chasing Dust is a witty story about finding home where you least expect it. These pages will transport you through food and culture into the beauty of the American Southwest.