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2023 Oklahoma Book Awards Finalist A captivating tale of humor and mystery by an award-winning author. After her father's death, a creative, free-spirited young woman plans to leave her Oregon ranch and hometown of busybodies. But she didn't count on a corpse in her shop--or murder. Forced to create friendships with strange, crabby, or too-helpful neighbors, she must face a murder charge and confront aching childhood memories in a town and...

Growing-up. Moving away. Coming Back. A funny, thought-provoking, head-banging journey.In 1997. any visitor to Rain, Oregon will find long-buried secrets, crazy neighbors, a convent, a buffalo, a jailbird, and a sky full of beckoning stars.Sophia Bolton can't wait to get out of the place.At twenty-six, she dreams of saving humanity by traveling to the stars. She also considers herself the master of work-arounds. After all, she's escaped her sl...

Belle Chere is looking for a man-even though she's seventy-two and has nothing but loathing for the guy. It has nothing to do with her colorful youth. She's paid for those stunts. Hard work has perfected her flinty humor and a don't-mess-with-me attitude. If trouble nears her eastern Oregon home, it will have to pick on idiots who don't see it coming. And yet, her stubbornness makes her one of the idiots. By misjudging a man with a grudge, she...

It's sort of a relief to have Ox Woolsey dead. It's not something his son, Jiggs, says out loud, but most folks in the fizzled-out town of Two Pan already know each other's business. Now Jiggs is free to grow his Oregon land, his cattle, and his frequently funny ideas to the Bonanza-big size of his childhood dreams-until the outsider arrives. Dr. Richard Jarmin frames the stunning landscape of the Eagle Cap Mountains in dollar signs-a perfect...