Book One in a sequential series of novels, Angels Landing is a story about breaking and breakdown, friendship and healing, set principally in the American Southwest of the present day. It is a tale about sun, plants, heritage, and spirituality, and the harmonious role each plays in the orchestration of one young man’s healing from both physical and psychological trauma. Infused with tri-lingual language elements (Spanish, English, Yaqui), a naturalist’s sensibilities for the earth, and the culturally syncretic spiritual paradigms of the American Southwest (Yaqui, Latter-day Saint, Mexican-Catholic, Tohono O’odham), the book and its successors present moral dilemmas as the core conflicts, each explored within the redemptive and recuperative power of the natural world (Yaqui: huya ánia).