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Trapeze flyer Tattooed Matilda finishes her signature act one night and seconds later, she’s hurtling toward the tanbark floor of the ring. Horribly injured she struggles to make sense of her condition while she grasps at memories of her troubled childhood and life as a star of a rag-tag troupe. Outside her circus family, Matilda remembers one true friend: Lucky Eddie.

Eddie is a sardonic, war-scarred, tattoo artist with a monkey called heroin on his back who bestows Matilda’s first tattoo when she’s a shy, misfit teen. Their seemingly strange friendship deepens over the years, enduring Eddie’s battle with addiction and Matilda’s craving for tattoos while she chases the intoxicating lure of the spotlight. Theirs is a bond forged in tattoo ink. 


But the circus tent that has fed Matilda’s soul becomes a curtain of unimaginable heartache when tragedy befalls the world she knows and loves and plummets her into a downward spiral that even bright lights, applause, and a new tattoo can’t mask.

Indelible Link cues up the music for a high flying, wild ride back to the time when the train pulled into town and a traveling circus arrived to promise a magical adventure under the big top.


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Girls from Centro - Juni Fisher

Girls From Centro  --  the novel by Juni Fisher

Women Writing the West 2019 WILLA Award: Contemporary Fiction Finalist


North of the Mexican border, freedom has a price.


Teresa sells souvenirs to tourists and helps care for her father’s fighting roosters in Centro--the heart of Nogales. With a promise of asylum, young Teresa and her sisters accompany their mother north, into the bone littered Sonoran Desert where the most dangerous predators drive cars, rob desperate travelers of hope, and sell the naïve to the highest bidders. 



Three decades earlier, unmarried mother Ana leaves her job at a convent in Centro to cook for a wealthy couple who’ve promised a privileged existence at their ranch in Arizona. Ana becomes ensnared in the illicit bartering that tethers her, and other impoverished women to the ranch. 

Girls from Centro, through the parallel stories of both women, yanks back a tangled tapestry to expose a maze of conflicting heroic and evil characters, murky secrets, skeletons, and sacrifice in a spell binding dash to a rewarding, and unforgettable finale.


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Juni Fisher
About the Author

Juni Fisher is a multi-award-winning singer, songwriter, and producer, and an award winning author. She’s the International Western Music Association’s (IWMA) Entertainer of the Year, four times Female Performer of the Year, (IWMA and AWA), three-time Song of the Year winner, and is a two time True West Magazine Best Solo Musician. Juni was the first woman to win the National Cowboy Museum’s Wrangler Award in 2009 for her landmark CD, Gone for Colorado, which was also the 2009 WMA Album of the year. Her debut novel, GIRLS FROM CENTRO was a 2019 Finalist for the WWW WILLA Award for Contemporary Fiction.  Her songs have appeared in feature film and documentary sound tracks and have been recorded by artists in folk and western music circles. 

Before writing her first full length novel, she had articles published in Equus Magazine, The Trout Unlimited Newsreel, The Western Way, and True West Magazine.
 
Fisher splits her time between the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee, and her hometown in Tulare County, in central California. When she’s on the west coast between concert tours, she rides and shows her cow horse, nick-named Dee Jay, who sports Juni’s 2NZ (it reads ‘tunes’) brand on her hip.
 
And when she takes an incognito break from the road with husband Rusty, they head for places where waters run clear and cold, and trout rise to well tied flies. She has a wicked double haul cast and has been known to have to be coaxed and bribed out of the water at the end of the day. She is, after all, a Fisher.

Reviews for Girls From Centro



“an engaging and fast-moving ride in the company of memorable characters, both good and bad, across a troubling social, cultural, historical and still timely landscape.”              See entire review https://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/girls-centro

--Tom Strelich, New York Journal of Books


Juni Fisher has written a story as bold as breaking news headlines covering the tragic perils of hopeful, honest emigrants lost in border deserts in search of a better life in the United States.  The reader will have to turn pages quickly to figure out and follow the maze of conflicting characters, both heroic and evil, in a spell-binding dash to the final five words.  There is more than one dramatic movie in this book set in abusive American ranch lands, unholy Catholic orphanages and frightening cults of early day Mormonism.

            --Warren Lerude, Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist


 Juni Fisher unveils her formidable storytelling skills while blending prose and poetry in “Girls from Centro.” She adeptly builds suspense in a type of handmaid’s tale, that’s not from some dystopian future, but from the recent past. Her love and knowledge of nature and the Southwest shines throughout.

            --Phil Lewis, retired editor, Scripps Howard Newspapers


This may be Fisher's debut novel, but this is not the last we will hear from her. Many people talk about writing a book "someday." This talented author sat down and did it, and did it well. She is a powerful storyteller with an interesting twist of imagination. Readers from all walks of life will find something to love about those girls from Centro who are just trying to get by, trying to make a life. I look forward to having more Fisher books on my shelf someday.

 
              --Amy Hale Auker
                 author of Rightful Place, Winter of Beauty, The Story Is the Thing, and Ordinary Skin: Essays from Willow Springs


"These gripping parallel stories are straight up and honest to the bone.
I found each character saturated with an authenticity I have rarely run across in border stories. Juni has a savage eye for sharp detail that kind of takes your breath away. It also kind of pisses me off, but that's the envy talking."

            —Bob Boze Bell, executive editor True West magazine


"Juni Fisher's superb tale of love, betrayal, tragedy and triumph, though set in the recent past, is as vivid and relevant as today's headlines from the Arizona border. Beautifully written and ingeniously structured, it is a slam-dunk winner."

             -- Ranger Doug Green, Riders in the Sky: author, and Grammy Award Winner


"Like a fine wood carver, Juni Fisher chipped and carved away everything that didn’t look or feel or taste like what she ultimately
gave us. A memorable, harsh, rash, loving, and moving human story piece of art. I big time enjoyed it"
                                                                
              --Waddie Mitchell, Award winning poet, author


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