Kirjahaku

Born into a poverty-stricken family in the slums of ancient Egypt, sold into slavery to work as a servant in Pharaoh's palace, Ankh fights for survival for herself and the boy-child secretly sired by the Pharaoh's only male heir-a child that might one day lay claim to Hokakhty's throne.

Science says everyone dreams. Do you? Do you dream? Do you remember your dreams? Do you play them throughout the day on the wide-screen retina in your mind. Do you re-dream previous dreams? Can you call up a specific dream and watch it whenever you want? Dreams of A Mad Woman are my dreams, or at least six of the ones I've watched multiple times. Drew, who has a brother/business partner with control issues, Martha who's dreams end up in a puddle, and Epii who is a wild child. Then there's Alyssa, Leon, and Hobbie all with hidden secrets.Pull up a seat, have some popcorn, and dream with me.

In the year 912 Wu-Lee was born the daughter to a powerful Chinese magistrate. Four years later her life was changed when a roving band of Mongolian raiders annihilated her family. Saved by her nursemaid she grew to womanhood hidden as a slave in a neighboring village. Only one person knew her secret. Then life twisted again and the raiders returned looking for a princess to answer a dead chieftains vision. Wu-Lee's secret was offered to the raiders in exchange for the secret holder's life. The raiders took Wu-Lee north.There on the barren Steppes, alienated from her captors and impregnated by their ruthless leader she grew strong and wise. She needed to protect her child and herself. But could she perpetuate a ruse that would take her back to China and save her and the son she had borne?

Things are looking up for Katelyn Took. She has a job, a roof over her head, a new love, and she's down to fourteen cats. If it weren't for the human remains, she fell into on Eagle Drop Ridge, she'd be over the moon.Then things start to slide. Before she recovers from falling into the first set of bones, a second set of remains is discovered fifty feet down at the bottom of the ledge. She knows there has to be a connection, even though the father of the male victim says there isn't. His tunnel vision is mirrored by the sheriff's, whose main focus is the female victim.Katelyn just wants it all cleared up before the climbing company that's considering renting the ledges drops out. It's a balancing act with the media thrown in for added confusion, and somehow the fate of her new love is jeopardized.Then Katelyn finds a small, shiny clue. What is she going to give up for peace of mind, or rather, what is going to be taken from her?

Katelyn Took came home to settle her grandmother's estate, only to discover not only did Gram leave seventeen cats. But Ruth Beauregard, a childhood chum, had moved in. Ruth was confused, penniless, and abandoned by her in-laws because they believed she had murdered her husband five years before. Ruth had improved, physically and mentally, but she still lived under the stigma of the Beauregard family's accusations. Katie believed Ruth was innocent and wanted her to be able to move on and be happy. But to make it so, she'd have to look for dirt under a lot of rocks, and it was looking like someone was going to throw those same rocks back. Hard. She could duck and weave, but could Katie find the truth without getting stoned to death?

Spring is waning, and summer is on the way. It's a beautiful day for Doris Flynn to take Rex and Buttercup, her four-hundred-and-fifty-pound lap pig, for a walk along the ridge. While Doris is admiring the flora and fauna, Buttercup is snuffling up the seedier side of things and uncovers the remains of a deceased forest brethren. Though Buttercup is quite interested, Doris is disgusted. Diverting the pig isn't easy, but when she's gone, Doris is left looking at a human skull barely half a mile from her home. A call to 911 brings the sheriff and the medicolegal death investigator. Both are new, have an agenda, and are questioning the viability of a pet pig. While Doris ponders how the remains got to a place directly above her home and how her daughter is tied into the case, the sheriff, unsure of his own staff, is trying to decipher the why. That leaves only the who and how, the medicolegal death investigator's forte. Are they going to find a way to work together and figure this out, or are the outsiders now prowling the area going to wreak more havoc?

After ten years gone, Katelyn Took returns home in 1974 to find the grandmother who raised her has been killed in the farm meadow. Gram's will leaves Katelyn ownership of the now dilapidated farm, but includes a stipulation regarding seventeen cats. Then there's the confused old woman still living in the farmhouse. Katelyn doesn't want to stay, but the longer she does, the more drawn into finding Gram's killer she becomes.