Lake of Fire
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As for the flight of the Nez Perce, the chiefs and generals, the victims Richard Dietrich and George Cowan, Lieutenant Hugh Scott, and Superintendent Stillwell are real history and personages. My other characters are fictitious.
I have remained wherever possible true to fact and some of the characters act out events reported by history. Meetings between the Nez Perce and the U.S. Army at Lapwai, along with the Battle of Big Hole, have been recreated through recorded eyewitness accounts.
There are various versions of the route the Nez Perce took through Yellowstone and some apparent controversy surrounding it. Some say the tribe split into two groups, and that one went through the Absarokas where I have placed my story.
Though there were summer wildfires in 1900, they were not on Nez Perce Peak for an excellent reason. While there is a Nez Perce Creek named for the incidents of 1877, I have planted a fictional mountain in the eastern ranges of the park. This youthful volcano played an “active” role in my previous books, Summer of Fire and Rain of Fire.
It is 1988, and Yellowstone Park is on fire.
Among the thousands of summer warriors battling to save America’s crown jewel, is single mother Clare Chance. Having just watched her best friend, a fellow Texas firefighter, die in a roof collapse, she has fled to Montana to try and put the memory behind her. She’s not the only one fighting personal demons as well as the fiery dragon threatening to consume the park.
There’s Chris Deering, a Vietnam veteran helicopter pilot, seeking his next adrenaline high and a good time that doesn’t include his wife, and Ranger Steve Haywood, a man scarred by the loss of his wife and baby in a plane crash. They rally ‘round Clare when tragedy strikes yet again, and she loses a young soldier to a firestorm.
Three flawed, wounded people; one horrific blaze. Its tentacles are encircling the park, coming ever closer, threatening to cut them off. The landmark Old Faithful Inn and Park Headquarters at Mammoth are under siege, and now there’s a helicopter down, missing, somewhere in the path of the conflagration. And Clare’s daughter is on it …
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The world’s largest volcano does not reside beneath Hawaii’s mountains, or in Washington state, but Yellowstone National Park. Past eruptions have darkened our continent and covered it with a blanket of ash that smothered both plant and animal life. Now the supervolcano, with its earthquakes and geysers, is monitored on a daily basis for signs of the beast reawakening.
As a terrified child, geologist Kyle Stone watched her family die in the 1959 Hebgen Lake Earthquake near Yellowstone. Fighting a lifetime of fears, she is one of the scientists with a finger on Yellowstone’s pulse. When a new hot spring appears overnight in the park and a noted naturalist is scalded to death, Kyle mounts an expedition into the Yellowstone backcountry to unravel the mystery. Accompanying her are Ranger Wyatt Ellison, former student and friend, and Dr. Nicholas Darden, volcanologist and former lover. More than just a volcano is heating up.
Amid personal conflict, earthquakes uprooting the land, and poison gases killing wildlife, Kyle finds herself in the unenviable position of convincing park officials to evacuate Yellowstone before tens of thousands of people die. As the earth shudders, Kyle must also choose between past and present, and defeat her darkest terror simply to survive.
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Eight years after her breakup with Rory Campbell, Mariah Grant, sole heir of her father’s construction company, returns to San Francisco from self-imposed exile. Her father is ailing, the business is floundering and in danger of being devoured by an arch rival; Mariah’s expertise is desperately needed.
Rory Campbell, also the sole heir to his father’s construction giant, realizes that in spite of the intervening years, Mariah still heats his blood to boiling. Trouble is, their fathers — men once as close as brothers — are now, mysteriously, sworn enemies. Their businesses are battling, and fraternizing with the competition is considered consorting with the enemy.
Then there is a deadly, and suspicious, accident on a Grant skyscraper, killing Mariah’s oldest friend. But was he the target? Will the elder Campbell stop at absolutely nothing to bring Grant down and keep his son from rekindling forbidden fires?
The war is on. Empires are at stake … lives hang in the balance … and the time has come for …
The Children of Dynasty
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Sylvia Chatsworth, flamboyant daughter of a U.S. Senator, and Lyle Thomas, rising star in the San Francisco D.A.’s office, are the city’s latest item. Until the tabloid news paints Sylvia as a party girl too naughty for Lyle, and her parents suggest they’d be happier if she disappeared. So she does just that.
For a hefty fee, the Senator sends Lyle off to find his daughter. When Lyle locates Sylvia in the Napa Valley and finds she’s changed her image, he’s intrigued enough to delay turning her in. Attraction growing, they hide out at a romantic Victorian Inn.
Lyle isn’t idle, however. He’s hot on the trail of some questionable real estate trades—schemes that connect a missing developer and his vintner brother, the D.A., and the Senator’s “blind” trust. When a local spring in wine country turns up with mercury pollution, Lyle and Sylvia wonder how far someone would go to crash land prices and pull off a real estate coup. And is her father hip deep in Mafia activity?
With their growing love threatened by arson and attempted murder, there’s also the question of trusting Lyle … when Sylvia discovers he’s on her father’s payroll …
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