The moving story of a self-aware young woman who refuses to surrender the vision of herself as a great artist.

Allie Armington is a bright, successful and self-reliant young Texas attorney coming up to the top of her game. But that independent streak just might be the death of her. Of course she doesn't admit it until she's about thigh deep in a conspiracy involving cattle, oil and drugs.

Set in the southern Adirondacks of upstate New York, during World War Two, eleven-year-old Mary, and her younger brother, Chief, survive the premature death of their Native American (Abenaki) mother only to suffer abuses from their white father. When they are sent to live with a widowed aunt in Fiddler's Rock, it appears they have a good home, but an unplanned pregnancy and two deaths change that. -- cover.

A millionaire real estate developer is found dead in a trout pool in the Adirondacks. Everyone, including the police says it was an accidental death, except Trooper Plunkett. Twenty years earlier he dated the widow. By the author of Bahama Heat.