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Nov 1, 2022

Blackwater Falls, Ausma Zehanat Khan

Small town melting pot, or simmering racial tensions about to boil over?

In the idyllic Colorado town of Blackwater Falls, resident Inaya Rahman, a refugee from wars foreign and domestic is a part of the Community Response Unit. The CRU has been called in to attempt to wrest control of a racially sensitive murder investigation from the hands of the local crooked sheriff. In so doing elements of disharmony, in the local megachurch, the biker gang, the townsfolk, the refugees and the FBI become agitated and start adding weight to Inaya's view that something is very wrong in this place.

As if that wasn't enough, Inaya's boss is acting cold and distant, her family is trying to marry her off and the community organizer doesn't trust her but does let slip that some Somali girls went missing in the weeks before the murder....

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