The Ratlue Diaries is a fictionalized account of events occurring 30 years ago in the grass-roots rebellion against the Rocking K. Ranch rezoning, a scheme to urbanize the sparsely populated Rincon Valley, twenty-five miles from downtown Tuscon, Arizona. Timely and timeless, this is a dramatic and deeply moving account of events in a Southwestern town and the repercussions that will forever change a young man’s view of human greed and compassion. Steeped in detail, this poetic account of mankind at his worst will leave the reader longing cool breezes and courtships call of the mourning dove.