MacDonald Harris is het pseudoniem waaronder Donald Heiney zijn fictie publiceerde. Zijn vroege fascinatie voor de zee, die begon op twaalfjarige leeftijd, doordringt zijn werk en geeft het een unieke maritieme sfeer. Heiney's proza kenmerkt zich door een diepgaande verkenning van de menselijke psyche en de complexiteit van relaties. Door middel van zijn personages duikt hij in innerlijke demonen en morele complexiteiten, vaak geplaatst tegenover suggestieve of uitdagende achtergronden die resoneren met zijn eigen ervaringen. Zijn vertelstijl is gepolijst en intellectueel rijk.
Mortal Leap tells a story we all know but have never heard: what happens when you have an opportunity to take another person's identity? A wife identifies a man badly disfigured in battle as her missing husband. What happens when he decides to go along with her mistake? Mortal Leap is both adventure story and metaphysical novel.
Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award, Strange Toys is a stunningly original and penetrating novel blending the real and unreal, the fantastic and the mundane, in a story of love, power, and the occult that carries one young woman on a difficult and dangerous journey. Pet is her name. At nine, she is struggling to protect her family from the horrors predicted in her strange older sister's book of secrets horrors that indeed come true. At sixteen, Pet is hunting down her older sister to wreak vengeance or something else. At thirty, Pet attains strength and power enough to protect her from the present but not from her sister's raging past. With humor, insight, compassion, and unrelenting suspense, Patricia Geary's Strange Toys takes the reader on parallel tours into the world of the supernatural and into the life of a young woman struggling to make peace with the known and unknown.