Bøker av Kathleen Haun

How do we keep control over our lives when events seem out of control, especially while hiding from our past? In Chasing the Dream and Declining Fortunes, Kathleen Haun introduced us to the self-reliant and determined Lucy Murphy. In Kathleen's seventh novel, Lucy becomes involved in a mystery that takes place in 1862 Placerville, a gold rush town mentioned in several of her books. While pursuing the solution of a number of ruthless acts challenging the town, Lucy has to confront some difficult truths, both about herself and those closest to her. We also get the full answer only hinted at in Declining Fortunes, as to why she moved her family to Placerville during the Civil War.

This eagerly awaited sequel to Dear Carrie, Letters From the Eastern Sierra 1878-1899 is Kathleen Haun's second work of historical fiction, set in the wild beauty of the Eastern Sierra. The saga of the Eastman and Perry families continues in a memoir written by Whitney Eastman in 1940 to reveal the long-hidden events occurring in her life between 1900 and 1908. Raised by doting parents and a loving community, Whitney marries and moves north to Bridgeport expecting an equally happy life on a cattle ranch. But she soon discovers that the cloistered security of her childhood was poor preparation for dealing with stunning revelations about her new family, devastating loss, and betrayals that challenge Whitney and those she loves as they weather the passing storms in their lives.

In Kathleen Haun’s sixth historical fiction novel, packed with actual events of the 1880’s, Amanda and Roger Murphy (introduced in No Trees for Shade) learn that sometimes secrets are revealed in layers.  These secrets dramatically impact the lives of those who are keeping them, as well as those who uncover them.  Meanwhile, the fortunes of once fabulously wealthy mining towns like Bodie in California and Virginia City in Nevada, are changing rapidly, as are the lives of their citizens –- and the society in which they live.