Abstract
Finalist: Midwest Book Awards Yoga teacher Maya Skye faces the same challenge every day: balance her search for inner peace with her fascination with mayhem. When she inherits a book of secrets, the Down Dog Diary, she sets out to find the killer of the book's former owner, a shaman named James Tumblethorne. When the mystical journal is stolen, Maya learns just how elusive inner peace can be at the point of a gun. Set in small Gabriel’s Garden, Minnesota, this is a mystery told with humor and drama, but it is also an exploration of the battle for inner peace that rages inside all of us. We may try to follow the path, but life isn’t all Minnesota nice.