• "An ornery cowpoke, a talking doll, and a murder mystery only critters can solve."
• When Dusty, a mean-spirited cowpoke, walks free after fifteen years in prison, the town braces for trouble. Soon, those who once testified against him start turning up dead?and Dusty's only alibi is his loyal cow dog and a barnyard full of witnesses. With greedy ranchers and a ruthless banker scheming to steal his land, Dusty's neck is on the line once more. Can an 87-year-old woman and her uncanny AI "old man doll" uncover the truth before the hangman's rope tightens?

Alexie Linn was born and raised in the 'mild' Pacific Northwest -- where the snow drifts are never higher than the barn roofs. Her first year of married life was lived in Alaska, in a tent and a homesteader's cabin -- where she got closely acquainted with sourdough and beans. She escaped to the desert southwest, became a widow, and life then began.

Alexie is a papered Life Coach, Nutritional Therapist, and Counselor with a vivid -- sometimes outrageous imagination.

She's also a slave to Joan Freed, the rebel life coach who, somehow, manages to come out on top of her mysterious and chaotic adventures.