When Joanne's parents fled from their country, Kowikia, to escape from paying their accumulated debts, taxes and a horde of other personal problems, the neighbouring kingdom of Lucklandia seemed like the perfect place to start afresh.
A take-off novel from the author's first work, Relentless, The Dawn Stealer finds paleontologist Laura Crisler doing field work near the abandoned town of Coleman, Arizona.