but sometimes I think I was born 30 years too early,” says writer Alisa Lynn Valdés. “I’m just glad I wasn’t around hundreds of years ago, because I’m one of those women who probably would have been burned at the stake.” The truth is that Valdés would be unique in any era. She spent her early years in Glasgow, Scotland, and, in 2003, Valdés has written 12 novels and a memoir, but none are quite like . The crime thriller, published in April by Thomas & Mercer, follows game warden Jodi Luna as she defends the natural world against humanity’s predations.
