Kirjahaku

This is the second book in The Desert Store Series. Twelve year old Geena escapes the clutches of her Shadow-tainted father and the town that supports him. Fleeing south with Mama in a 57' Mercury, they stop at a desert store in New Mexico. Having inherited the Sight from Mama, she immediately knows the store is her new home, and Cowboy Johnson, the owner, is the good father she needs. Now she has protection and a family - and love at first sight - when she meets Ray Makepeace. More misfits settle into the store. But families carry both strengths and weaknesses and the misfits have plenty of both. Geena and Ray's love is in for a bumpy ride. Normaine won't marry beautiful, dapper Eddy. Mama is terrified of returning Cowboy Johnson's steadfast, calm love. William the Dude Makepeace makes troubling decisions based on his arthritis. Still, love will have its way, traveling the many paths it takes to stay true to the soul each misfit carries. Interspersed here and there are children's stories the author is currently making into children's books. Geena's coming of age story is an inspiring tale of innocence and courage. 6x9" 276 pages. The saga continues with book # 3. The Three Cactus Limbo- Bud's Garage and the Three Magi.

A blue rubber albatross, a mistake made in a factory that a man who worked there took home to his little boy instead of throwing in the trash heap was taken to the beach one day. The little boy laid the blue rubber albatross down on the sand, planning to get it later. The boy forgets, and a storm washes the blue rubber Albatross into a cave where it unknowingly prepares to weather a coming storm that will bring the boy back to it. A children's novel. 22 pages. 6.5"x 6.5".

Mama loses Cowboy Johnson in the summer and flees to the ranch to hide out with his ashes just before Christmas. Then a huge blizzard stops most of the misfits from traveling home to the desert store for their annual Christmas gathering. But the desert store doesn't stay empty. Arrivals are expected. Second Sighted entrepreneur Timmon, Hector and Annie, who run the store now, await the appearance of the deceased Cowboy Johnson's angry wealthy father, Matthew Mark Judson, who wants to take over the desert store and more. But unexpected guests show up first, beginning with Susan Sugar Diamond and her sidekick Lana English, or is it Lana Ellis? Gorgeous, larger than life, famous author Susan Sugar Diamond was left on the steps of an orphanage at 3 months old. Perry, Matthew's other son, a wanderer who avoids commitments other than business, is with William the Dude and Emma, his famous artist daughter, at their ranch. Mama sneaks out and hitches a ride back to their Monastery with the "Three Magi", Bud, Andy & Ben. An intensely moving and luminous read about a gathering of unusual people who have all reached a crossroad in their lives. All of them will be making new decisions, for better or worse.

Timmon, unable to shake off the experience of his mother's hatred for him, turns what's left of the desert store over to Susan Sugar Diamond, and hides out at his friend Gordon's estate. Everyone that loves him knows that something has to be done to shake him out of the depression he is in. Just past a year later, a note and a deed arrive in the mail, and Timmon heads out to Colorado. He doesn't know it yet, but a showdown is brewing with his mother in which Timmon will finally have to face both his mother's history and her hate for him, and the immense love he never knew she was capable of.

Fleeing his evil family, Timmon moves into the desert store at ten years old. Timmon is double Sighted. Timmon's palate is impeccable, his sense of smell keen. He is a calm, positive soul, surviving under an evil Shadow. He is beloved by all the desert store. Timmon's father and brothers are in prison for life. His mother, who is Sighted, and his four sisters, who are not, despise Timmon's Sighted Goodness, and actively want to see him dead. In a final confront, his sisters and mother and her new partner, Vance Romaine, use their hatred and psychic abilities to destroy everything around the desert store. Then they flee to the haunted, evil Dolly Manfred mansion in Colorado, built long ago by an evil ancestor of Mina's. A year later, Timmon is summoned to Gitwell, Colorado, to look a a new property he was mysteriously deeded. He know nothing about where his mother is and doesn't want to. The pain of what happened at the desert store is is still too much. Gifted in different ways, two wounded your men, Beck and Shem, are led to Gitwell. Timmon, Shem, and Beck have no idea that the reclamation and redemption of their lost, bruised childhoods await them in a mighty, tender moment of convergence at the edge of what might be the flattest field in the world.The edge of that field lies at the end of Lou Cornfield's innocent little cottage and the evil ancient mansion, Manfred's Folly, a mile away as the crow flies. This is not your usual shallow, feel good romance book, all neat and tidy, tied up in a formulated package. This is a story about a fight between good and evil, about three others and their sons' battles for redemption and forgiveness. Building intensity and depth from the first page, the story leads the reader through the characters' lives to a stunning ending of forgiveness and redemption. This is a book that takes a different look at love and how it operates in our world.