Synopsis For: Bad At Love: A Lyndy Martinez Story

Folks who were on the run for months or years at a stretch used to tell her it was a relief to finally be captured. Because it’s stressful being a fugitive—you lose a lot of sleep. It’s lonely too. Oftentimes Lyndy knew how they felt.

This adventure is so grand it spans two time periods, past and near-present. Having reached her mid-fifties, with an adult daughter, Lyndy E. Martinez still prefers to drive the same 1960s automobile—a fastback Mustang topping 250k on the odometer. But not all went according to plan. The present Lyndy struggles to make ends meet, residing in a small trailer, battling with alcoholism and feeling invisible compared to her past glory. A side gig tending goats is not bringing in enough cash, so she returns to her old job, except this time in a different town and state, Williams AZ, and with a new younger boss, Native American businesswoman Rhonda Thurgood. Her initial assignment has her investigating the falsified death and disappearance of a wealthy casino builder. She hopes for an easy score, but the re-emergence of a familiar name—Rita Lovelace—causes Lyndy to begin reliving old memories: a seventies road trip with the fashion icon, a glamorous stay in Vegas and an archaeology conference. Rita and Lyndy are on a mission to recover a stolen flute, thereby undoing a curse which threatens anyone who ever came in contact with the artifact, including Miss Lovelace herself. In order to make amends with her daughter Maribel, Lyndy knows she must somehow come to terms with her complicated past. And to focus on doing a good job for her new employer, she needs to re-examine her feelings, why her relationship with Rita went sour and yet touches her in so many powerful ways. At last, in worsening trouble with a casino syndicate, she knows the only key to survival is summoning her old way of getting things done, and showing these tough guys how she earned her nickname in the first place.