Visitant
The first book in a series following the archeological investigations of Dr. Maureen Cole finds the amateur sleuth digging for clues surrounding the 800-year-old deaths of several young female members of the Chaco Anasazi Indian tribe. New Mexico`s upper Sonoran desert has many treasures to be found, but when a site excavation uncovers mass graves containing the bodies of young women, all with their skulls smashed, Dr. Cole and her team of scientists question whether or not they have truly hit the jackpot. Alternating between Dr. Cole`s high-tech investigation and tribal war chief Browser`s search for his young wife`s killer in 1250 A.D., THE VISITANT unearths ancient Native American culture and reveals the perhaps disturbing similarities between the present and the past.

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1. \Vis"it*ant\, n. [L. visitans, -antis; p. pr.: cf. F.
   visitant.]
   One who visits; a guest; a visitor.
         When the visitant comes again, he is no more a
         stranger.                                --South.
   

2. \Vis"it*ant\, a.
   Visiting. --Wordsworth.