Fake Out

For 20-year-old Sandy Chambers, the spring of 1968 was all about making love, not war. She wanted to let her hair blow in the breeze; to wear bell-bottomed jeans that frayed from being dragged behind her bare feet; and to experience free, no-attachment sex. The trouble is, the man she chose to gift her virginity to turned up dead the next day.

Her discovery of her lover's body links Sandy to a world where drug lords, resource companies, and family feuds do battle with the new-world values of...