Chasing Dust: Love, Family & Friendship in the American Southwest (6 Degrees Book 1)

A house in the desert, an old journal, and the secrets they keep. Cali Clarke is a successful product designer in San Francisco, who lives for work and happy hours with her best friend, or at least she did until her mothers unexpected passing. Since then, nothing feels quite right. But when her efforts to settle her mothers estate reveal a secret house in New Mexico, Cali finds herself with pressing questions. Knowing her only hope for answers is in that house, she drops everything to go. The high desert is a complete change of pace, forcing Cali to down-shift from incessant emails to watching literal paint dry. Its almost bearable, until she unearths her mothers journal from thirty years prior. With answers about the past so close, Cali has to decide if the glimpses into her mothers life are worth the pain they stir up in her own. Cali's only reprieve comes from befriending a vivacious local coffee shop owner and the handsome and hopefully single bartender down the road. But when hidden family secrets surface, Cali discovers her own life isnt as black and white as she thought. With her friendships and career on the line, can Cali make peace with her past before she destroys her future?