Lily Cassidy watched her father get assassinated at the beginning of the infamous Lincoln County War.  Left to support her mother and her crippled brother, it's a weight that rests heavily on her shoulders more so because she knows who killed her father, and is powerless to do anything about it.  Lily turns to "Uncle" Emmett Moss, a friendly local rancher, whose fairness and common sense call out to Lily in her hour of need.  But, she's taken aback when the widowed Uncle Emmett proposes the idea of marriage.  Lily, seeing an easy way to support her mother and her brother accepts, also hoping for revenge against Henry Hart, the man who hired her father's killer. Emmett challenges Henry, leading to a bloody confrontation that will kill many of Lily's friends and neighbors.  Through it all Lily matures into a strong, clear - minded woman who learns to accept the strengths and weaknesses of those around her.

Texas Lily

Literature & Fiction

Elizabeth Fackler

Genre Fiction

Forge

Breaking Even

United States

Elizabeth ''Gigi'' Garrett, a nationally-acclaimed concert pianist, has retired to teach music to the neighborhood children of a small town. When fifteen-year-old Eleanor Fielding disappears and popular opinion blames Chauncy Stewart, an orphan the town has raised catch-as-catch-can, Gigi uses her sharpened senses to explore the shadowy lives of her list of suspects. After she bails Chauncy out of the county jail, Sheriff Sly Rendt is intrigued enough to begin a pattern of late night visits to pick through her memories of her famous father, frontier sheriff Pat Garrett, for clues as to how to proceed. Despite his frequent admonitions for her to stick to music, Sly relies more and more on her discoveries as a warm friendship grows between them. Set on the vast plains of southeastern New Mexico in the Depression of the 1930s, My Eyes Have A Cold Nose sculpts an intense interior adventure from within the mind of a blind woman as she courageously follows her seeing-eye dog Teene to help a boy from the wild side who has no one else in his corner. Elizabeth Fackler's apt depiction of Miss Garrett's historically-true character is based on archival documents, interviews with former friends, and profound insights into the world of the unseeing. Ruth Hall's biography of Elizabeth Garrett, A Place of Her Own, also published by Sunstone Press, is a fitting companion to Fackler's compelling work.

My Eyes Have a Cold Nose, A Historical Mystery

Contemporary

Sunstone Press

The first, never-before-published prequel to Elizabeth Fackler's critically-acclaimed series of western novels about Texas outlaw Seth Strummar.

Bone Justice

Western Star

In this fictionalized account of a true crime, drifter Buck Powell poses as a policeman to take Nathan Wheeler from a small town's high school. When Amy Sterling learns that her boyfriend has been kidnapped, she immediately suspects Zeb Mulroney, Buck's cousin. Although the police discount her suspicion, her mother Lucinda asks the tenant of their garage apartment, Devon Gray, a retired homicide detective from Texas, to help them search for Buck. Romantically involved with Lucinda, Devon agrees to humor Amy to keep her from idle worry. The three of them set off in his old truck on an all-night manhunt into the mountains. During the night, Devon is challenged by Amy's youth and his love for Lucinda to tackle the problem more gently than he normally would. Achieving partial success, he takes the women home and sets off alone to finish the job. Amy, haunted by the thought of Nathan's suffering, arranges a meeting with Zeb. She takes Devon's gun, intending to use it to discover the truth about Nathan's fate, but a third party intervenes, proving we are all connected and life is an endless river that never stops pulling us into the future.  Elizabeth Fackler is the author of novels, short stories, and poetry. Sunstone Press has recently reissued her classic novel on the Lincoln County War: Billy the Kid: The Legend of El Chivato. Western Writers of America called it "a magnificent achievement in historical fiction." She lives with her husband, Michael, and their two dogs, Pecos and Mitchum, in Capitan, New Mexico.

Five Star First Edition Mystery - Endless River

Five Star

Lucinda's Summer Vacation (Five Star First Edition Mystery) (Five Star Mystery Series)

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