Deze auteur duikt in complexe thema's, waarbij hun werk wordt erkend om zijn diepgaande inzichten in de menselijke psyche en sociale dynamiek. De schrijfstijl is boeiend en maakt vaak gebruik van innovatieve verteltechnieken die lezers in het verhaal onderdompelen. Hun werk verkent tijdloze vragen over liefde, verlies en de zoektocht naar betekenis. Lezers waarderen het vermogen van de auteur om gedenkwaardige personages te creëren en sterke emotionele reacties op te roepen.
When Johnny Rourke returned from the war to old Benj Tramer’s Bandera spread, he found that there was no peace along the Rio Grande. Cattle was being rustled, and men who had been loth to kill for their country’s sake were ready enough to kill for profit. Such a man was Tom Cana, who had been made foreman of the Bandera during Johnny’s absence.
Coronado scorned this region as unpopulated when he labored through southeastern Arizona in 1540, but he could have found 12,000-year-old spear points in the remains of giant bison near Cave Creek Cienega, grinding hollows in boulders, and shamanic figures in high caves of the Chiricahuas towering above valleys and grasslands. Searing drought forced people to abandon their villages by 1400, but Apaches wandered down from Canada about the time Spaniards passed by. Thousands of forty-niners traveled in sight of the mountains on their race to California. The Chiricahua Apaches were exiled to Florida in 1886; even earlier, their lands were opened to settlement. Portal began in 1902 as a rest stop between the railroad and the boom town of Paradise. Since 1956, the Southwestern Research Station of the American Museum of Natural History has attracted countless researchers. The present community is a vibrant mix of biologists, birders, astronomers, writers, artists, and ranchers, united by love for this unique canyon.
Paige, in England to collect the folksongs she loves and sings, finds her cottage usurped by a TV producer who beguiles her into swapping her place for a gypsy wagon. He also takes her along he old dragon trail and her whole life changes.
Leaving her position with an orchestra because of an unhappy affair, harpist Lynette Heath escapes to an English estate, Belleforest, where she will teach music to the surly but talented grandson of Dame Isolde, the great diva. Lynette is attracted to Amlyth, Isoldes son, but is he the murderer?
Recently widowed, Tracy came to the forested state and old mansion left to her by her dead husband’s grandmother. Tracy and her husband had shared photography for many nature books; she wonders if she can work on her own. Instead of peace, she’s caught between two men, one a game warden, one a hunter of women as well as animals.
After his death, Uther Pendragon continues to rule Ravensgate by decreeing that his young widow, Gael, his mistress, Luna, and his business partner, Valerie, must live together for a year at the estate. The survivor inherits the house. But will any of them be left alive?
Robin is invited to camp on the Sea of Cortez in Mexico by Matt whom she secretly loves. He’s taking his fiancée, so Robin’s boss, daredevil Quinn, offers to come along and pretend to adore Robin in order to make Matt see her as a desirable woman. They all wind up in fearful danger than brings out their true feelings.
Kristins Norwegian holiday takes her to her magnetic cousins home on a remote farmstead where human hate mixes with supernatural horror in an ancient curse instead?
Tory owes much to her bird-loving aunt, so when she comes into a legacy, she takes Aunt Elspeth on the trip of her dreams to see the Mayan ruins and exotic birds of Yucatan. Tory’s fiance comes on the trip but has mysterious business of his own. Can it be murder?
Erica came to Gift in Wiltshire to tutor Kim, the willful but charming 9 year old daughter of a famous playwright whose last wife killed herself. His first wife is now his secretary and Erica finds herself and Kimberly in deadly peril. Can anyone in the haunted house be trusted?