Jane Candia Coleman

Abandoned to starve or freeze, young Nell had to be tougher than most men and bolder than most women, otherwise death was certain....

Jane Candia Coleman is a natural storyteller whose characters come from the lands between the southwestern valleys of Arizona and the Gila Mountains of New Mexico. Each story embodies the finest elements of Western fiction imitations of hope, vulnerability, and courage....

Joanna O'Keefe sells off the family holdings in Texas to go find her husband in New Mexico territory....

In The Italian Quartet, Sara Marcello, a writer with roots in Italy, is invited to the island villa of Ugo and Olivia Bellini, two wealthy and worldly antiquarians. In this place of myth, belonging as much to Homer and Prospero as to the present, Sara discovers that she is at the center of...

Nan Fletcher is an abused wife whose scars are all hidden because they're emotional. She appears to have it all--a great house, a successful professor husband, Jake, and her beautiful teenage son, Jamie--but with Jake's constant demand for perfection, she finds that she has lost her sense of...