Alex is on the verge of dismissal from her anthropology doctoral program when her luck turns and she lands a fellowship with a dioramist at the Museum of the Rockies. Only problem is, Alex hasn’t a clue about dioramas or dinosaurs, and, as she will soon find out, she’s not the only one faking it in this frozen landscape. From New York City to Yellowstone National Park, we follow Alex, a whip-smart dyslexic-ADHD Margaret Mead cum Ms. Marple, and her friends—a Nature photographer, a Ranger, a Polish guest worker, paleontologists, poets and Iranian-elite dot-commers—as they explore friendship, identity, climate change, globalization, and a murder against the stunning backdrop of the Rockies in winter. An engaging read for adventurous mystery lovers. Roxanne Varzi is an award-winning author, filmmaker, playwright, Fulbright scholar, and dyslexia disruptor. She has published work in The London Review of Books, The Detroit Free Press, The LA Times, The Guardian, and Le Monde Diplomatique and three anthologies of Iranian-American stories. She is the author of Warring Souls, and Independent Publishers Award Gold Medalist Last Scene Underground: an Ethnographic Novel of Iran. She has a PhD from Columbia University and is a full professor of Anthropology and Visual Studies at the University of California Irvine.