The awful dreams won't stop tormenting Michael Kincaid's sleep, bloody reminders of what he's lost. Trying to get his head straight, he flees LA and heads back into the remote deserts of the Four Corners region to reunite with friends and surrogate family from long ago. But an elderly acquaintances murder which the cops claim is an open and shut case, and a chance encounter with Erin, an old flame from his wasted teenage years, turn Michael onto an unexpected path. Who are those sinister figures who turn up. lurking in the shadows? And what are the spirits trying to tell him as he hallucinates in the Navajo shaman's sweat lodge? "Open & Shut" is a fast-paced legal adventure that interweaves the mysteries of the high desert, the spiritual traditions of the Navajo and Hopi peoples, and corruption at the highest levels of power-with a grieving big-city exile's discovery that he has a second chance at love.