UTAH TERRITORY, 1869 In Mormon country, where plural marriage is an accepted way of life, two sisters, Montana and Zelda Sudsway, are expected to follow suite and marry into polygamy. Jane, a 16-year old immigrant living with them, is hopelessly in love with their brother, Sydney, but he is betrothed to Helen, the beauty of Bear River Valley. Knowing that Sydney holds deed to the Sudsway pioneer home, Helen refuses to take vows until his sisters are married and out of the house. With the young men of their settlement either panning for gold in the North or setting rails for the Union Pacific, what are the girls to do? The joining of the transcontinental railroad at Promontory Point, Brigham Young's edict, boycotting "gentile" entrepreneurs who threaten to dominate Salt Lake City commerce, and the emergence of the anti-Mormon City of Corinne-these conflicts form the historical backdrop to a star-crossed love story in Baiting on the Bear.
Ruzena, an aged ex-vaudeville actress, sees and accuses thirteen-year-old Muggs of shoplifting. After learning that she lives alone on the first floor of her three-story home, Muggs, while pursued by a cop, slips into her house, sneaks upstairs, and takes refuge as a secret squatter. Disaster strikes when he discovers the murdered body of the cleaning lady, Aurelia, in the attic. Ruzena and Muggs, now both suspects, become bonded in friendship as they struggle to prove their innocence.
Marla Samson, a sixteen-year old ballet student, wins a scholarship for summer master classes at the Blamont Castle in France, where she immediately runs into a frightening entanglement of intrigue and controversy. Last year's dancers are puzzled by her resemblance to Cynthia, a student of the previous year, who was killed when a car she and her dancing partner, Yori, were traveling in plunged over a cliff at Devil's Curve. Some believe they were forced off the road. While lost in the castle, Marla ends up in Cynthia's room and is strangely drawn to her, as if she is being united with a lost twin sister, as if that sister is pleading for help. She believes she sees the dead girl's shadow floating down a castle corridor, dancing at the fountain, darting into the woods. The mystery becomes Marla's obsession, especially when she faces life-threatening harassment. Was Cynthia's death an accident or murder? The three faces of the moon goddess (Artemis, Goddess of the Forest, Hecate, Goddess of the Underworld, and Cynthia, Goddess of Moon-madness) form a mythic backdrop for this young-adult Gothic, ON THE EDGE WITH CYNTHIA.
Ruzena, an aged ex-vaudeville actress, sees and accuses thirteen-year-old Muggs of shoplifting. After learning that she lives alone on the first floor of her three-story home, Muggs, while pursued by a cop, slips into her house, sneaks upstairs, and takes refuge as a secret squatter. Disaster strikes when he discovers the murdered body of the cleaning lady, Aurelia, in the attic. Ruzena and Muggs, now both suspects, become bonded in friendship as they struggle to prove their innocence.
Fleeing from arrest in London, Modesty Brown headed for the safety of wedded bliss in the New World. But the saucy wench had no sooner arrived in Virginia than a ruthless nobleman accused her of witchcraft and she had to marry a downright savage or burn at the stake. From the bestselling author of The Captive and To Tame the Wildest Heart.
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