Killing Time: A Novel in Two Acts

Regina Patterson Kendall is finding her privileged Boston Brahmin life superficial and empty. She hankers back to the year she spent as a teenager in the Arizona town of Harden, where her anthropogist father took his family to study the Hopi.

There she encountered a way of life that put in sharp contrast and question all she had been previously taught to believe and value. And there she met Casey Colter, a love she meant to leave behind but never did. Her increasingly morose, reclusive, and rebellious behavior is disturbing her parents, Maggie and Arthur, confusing her daughters, Katelyn and Lindsay, and jeopardizing her husband Howie's career as a corporate lawyer. At the advice of her grandmother Abby, the family matriarch, Reggie returns to Harden in quest of the girl she was and the woman she wanted to be--and hopefully to confront her ghosts and finally lay them to rest.