The Secret People

by B.R. Fleming

"We all have our hidden secrets . . ."

Searching for her missing father, Lesley Whitney enters a life and death struggle, thrust into the realm of Navajo Sorcerers and the Inorganic Beings.


When Dr. Lesley Whitney receives the call from Sheriff Branshee that her famous father, archaeologist Arthur Whitney, is missing while exploring Native American sites in the Four Corners, Lesley inadvertently becomes involved in finding clues to his disappearance. Her search for the truth forces Lesley to confront her past and her soured relationship with her father, as well as her current relationship with her lover, Jonathan. With the help of archaeologist, Alan Hall, and the Navajo sorceress, Pine Leaf, Lesley learns that what often appears logical and simple at first glance, can become frighteningly complex and illusory in real life.

210 pages, Paperback

First published November 27, 2014

About the author

B. R. Fleming grew up in the '60's reading sci-fi novels and watching sci-fi movies and was a musician in rock bands that played psychedelic rock and the music of the British invasion. After serving in the US Air Force as a Technical Instructor during the Vietnam War, he returned to civilian life and began a career in teaching, which he has followed since. He lives in Southern California and still plays music and teaches classes in English Lit and Creative Writing in high school, as well as college classes in Teaching the Gifted and Talented and Drama. He studied Screenwriting at the University of California, Irvine, and has completed five feature-length film scripts. His screenplays have been marketed to Sony Pictures and Walt Disney Studios Pictures Marketing.

His novel, Summertime Blues, recounts life in the '60's through the eyes of teen Peter Bennings and focuses on the struggles that all teens must face in "growing up." His next novel, The Secret People, to be released Summer 2014, follows Lesley Whitney as she enters the realm of Native American Spiritualism and encounters the Inorganic Beings on her search for her missing father in the Four corners region of the US. Mr. Fleming's next project will be The Colony Trilogy: Torus I; The Colony; and The Coming, a fact-based sci-fi series revolving around colonization of the solar system.