I visited my parents in El Paso over the weekend. Tequila Midnight is set there, and the main character in Portrait of Deception ends up there too. I love using El Paso and the borderlands when I write because while many have driven through the area, few people really know it. The desert is a land of opposites. It is both harsh and beautiful, full of people and cultures and achingly desolate. For me, it is a great place to set a novel.
