Summer of Sunflowers is a fiction, murder/mystery novel, told from the perspective of 16-year old Shannon Scott returns to the Navajo reservation to spend a summer with her grandmother. What she expects is a peaceful summer and a break from her hectic city life in Los Angeles, but what she encounters is a dramatic summer of peculiar and unexpected events-a surprise visit from strangers, the murder of a local Navajo man, a new love interest, and reliving memories she thought she had tucked away for good.