Bøker av J. Rickley Dumm

Teenagers, Anna Maria Obregon and Roylon Tripp, are in-love. They are dancers, a once-in-a-lifetime pair, winning contests and performing for crowds. The "top of the world" is their oyster.Then fate separates them for 22 years...until one early morning when Homicide Detective Roylon Tripp sees her again: The first love of his life, Anna Obregon, lies in the threshold between life and death, and knows he must risk everything to save her.END OF THE NIGHT is a thrilling, sometimes amusing and unpretentious love story about a pair destined for each other, yet surrounded and pounded by so-called friends and colleagues, and those who wish them dead.The top-of-the-world will have to wait. Does fate have other plans?

A rapturous, perhaps obsessive, tale of seven cities of gold has led hundreds, if not thousands, to their demise or to a lasting mental weakness over the past several centuries. Is this myth or truth?The patriarch of the generations-old, dysfunctional Burns family has bequeathed a lasting memory of an irrefutable ordeal to family members who barely know one another.Shrine of the Apache is an exciting 21st Century story of temptation, infatuation, and greed that leads the kin on a quest for what may only be legend, in a place that is historically notorious, and where the lore and the lure are unnatural.Historian George Johnson wrote: "Everyone who goes into the mountains leaves behind a little bit of themselves."