"My people believe that wearing Azurite can heal the damaged soul."Desiree Sumner needs massive healing when she enters high school. Her parents' separation and the death of her beloved grandfather throw her life into upheaval. She loses most of her interests and falls into a hazy kaleidoscope of daydreams. By her senior year, she's begun to heal when she learns of geology field trip to the Grand Canyon-an adventure she and her grandfather had intended to have someday.Their geology teacher mysteriously omits the camp's location from the permission slip and is oddly secretive about the real...

"My people believe that wearing Azurite can heal the damaged soul."Desiree Sumner needs massive healing when she enters high school. Her parents' separation and the death of her beloved grandfather throw her life into upheaval. She loses most of her interests and falls into a hazy kaleidoscope of daydreams. By her senior year, she's begun to heal when she learns of geology field trip to the Grand Canyon-an adventure she and her grandfather had intended to have someday.Their geology teacher mysteriously omits the camp's location from the permission slip and is oddly secretive about the real...

Jane Frances Ruby has entertained and illuminated readers with her first young adult novel, The Azurite Encounter. Her sequel, Voiceless Whispers adds a dose of myth and folklore to the series.

Three years after her fateful high school field trip to the Grand Canyon, all is good with Desiree Sumner. Not so much for Taqa, the medicine man who helped her. Worn and battered by many years of serving his ancient hidden tribe in the Grand Canyon, He wants to retire. But first he must teach his skills of shamanism and herbal medicine to a successor.

His quest is...