The spell of the canyon, like a spider's web, holds two families in the interweaving strands of two quests - one for gold, the other for answers.
Where will you and I sleep?
At the downturned ragged edge
of the sky, you and I will sleep
Wintu Indian Song
Her eyesight faded while outside the cave the shape of Prospector’s Mountain scraped the skyline and covered the canyon in shadow. The soft pressure of his lips lingered on her ear - this gift of pleasure her last human sensation.
“Emm-ma-line," he whispered. "There is one thing I can do.”
The timbre of his voice, the voice she loved, soaked into her waning consciousness. His words receded with her into the dark void and replaced the beat of her heart.
“Stay with me..."
1911, Sunset Canyon
When Darcy Peel went away to graduate school, she thought never to return to her girlhood home. For twenty years she believes she has escaped the nightmare of living in the shadow of Prospector's Mountain and the strange and dangerous 'power' of Sunset Canyon that cuts through it. She purposefully built emotional and physical distance between herself and the small, high desert community where myths of ghost warriors that guard the Lost Blood Stones Mine collide with reality when every prospector looking for gold in the canyon narrowly escapes with his life. Or never returns. Like her father and brother.
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Darcy comes home to find Deanna. She follows her intuition that the persistent dream-visions of the girl in the cave are tied to her sister's disappearance. The trail leads to Alan Brandt. He is related to the McCann family, who for years has been in a heated feud with the Peels over mining rights. Trust is an issue, but when he touches her, he touches her heart, her life and her future. Darcy must learn to believe in Alan even when a supernatural connection between him and the mystery of the canyon is slowly revealed. He is the only one who can 'read' the strange little book.
Is he human? If so, will he help her in her quest for answers to her sister's disappearance despite the seething animosity between the two families? If Alan is something other than human, is he a mortal danger to her? Are Darcy's intelligence and intuition, at constant war with her heart, the only things she can rely on? Or can she trust her feelings and rely on love?
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Blood Stones - Book One
Visit again the haunted
“Canyon that Sees the Sun” in Book 2,
Cast in Stone: The Secret of New Moon Mesa.
Join Sammy Peel, as he braves "the curse"of Sunset Canyon to search for his aunt. He enters the mysterious red rock landscape on the night of a super new moon called the Ghost Moon.
This moon is seen only four times a century on the Vernal Equinox and possesses a powerful magic for one who haunts
the canyon. Sam barely escapes with his life and finds that everything is forever changed by the experience.
Will his quest to find his aunt and answers about the strange energy that seems to enclose the mountain in a stronghold of magic be fulfilled? Will the love he feels for the beautiful archaeologist, Tobi Racine, who may only be interested in him for his family’s knowledge of an ancient Indian settlement, lead him back into the canyon and the very real danger from the entities who dwell there, and the truth of his own connection to them?
Cast in Stone - Book Two
How close is
the New Moon?
Within Sunset Canyon, deep in the Arizona desert, the love a young woman feels for her mysterious lover grows deeper every year, though her heart ceased to beat over a century ago - stilled by the one she loves.
What magic is this? Supernatural? Witchcraft? The Shaman's Curse? Or...something other?
Central Valley Talk
Interview about Blood Stones
Love, Fear, Truth...None hide from
The Ghost Moon
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