Deeply grounded in Ojai valley history, private accounts and Chumash mythology, this novel tells the riveting story of four people caught in the multi-dimensional unfolding of a bank robbery and murder mystery, intense coming-of-age romance, a unique merger of historic and mythic truth, and a new vision of love, fate, sacrifice and rebirth.Flura Spark, 20, is brilliant but caught in a nasty marriage. Benny Scope has turned 16 over-steeped in Chumash myths and hungry for sexual fulfillment. Jacko Murrieta, great grandson of the notorious Zorro anti-hero, is pushed to rob a bank to save his mother. And Frank Scope at 48 struggles to find forgiveness and new love. Together they plunge into life-or-death encounters with each other, nature and the law - as they open up to emotional healing and spiritual awakening.LOVING MURRIETA delivers unique fiction revealing both the historic pathos and also the upsurging faith and hope still vibrantly alive in Ojai - where the spirits of Chief Topa Topa, Juaquin Murrieta and Jiddu Krishnamurti reach out and grab the hearts and hopes of a new generation. John Selby is a fourth-generation Ojai rancher-family native and the author of Quiet Your Mind, Seven Masters One Path, The Jade Phallus, and 30 other books.