Milana Marsenich Livres

Girlhood, courage, nature, and flight from a tyrant¿s hand in post-frontier Montana.¿Lillian Connelly loves trumpeter swans and vows to protect them from a hunter who is killing them and leaving their carcasses for the wolves and coyotes to ravage.¿On her eleventh birthday Lilly¿s family visits the Cattail Marsh to see the newly hatched cygnets.The family outing turns tragic when Dean Drake shows up with his shotgun and fires on not only the swans, but on Lilly¿s family. Unable to prevent tragedy, Lillian witnesses Drake kill her father, injure her mother and slaughter the bevy of trumpeter swans. The sheriff, Charlie West, thinks that Lilly is reacting to the trauma and blaming Drake because of a previous conflict between Drake and her father. Lilly¿s mother, sister and her best friend, Jerome West, the sheriff¿s son, all think the same thing: that Lilly is trying to make sense of a senseless accident. ¿Left alone to bring Dean Drake to justice, Lilly¿s effort is subverted when Drake woos her sister, courts her mother, and moves into their home.¿The Swan Keeper is an historical, coming of age novel set in Northwest Montana's Mission Valley in the late 1920s.

Sequel to the bestselling novel Copper Sky.?During the fall of 1918, the influenza pandemic crosses the nation and reaches the mining town of Butte, Montana.?Marika Jovich, who wants to go to school to become a physician, works menial tasks for Dr. Fletcher. She feels useless as she tries to save friends and neighbors from the ravages of the flu. In the midst of the pandemic, she watches the town shut down, young and old perish, and her medical dreams all but evaporate.?Kaly Monroe used to be a half-good woman of the night. She left that life to raise her daughter, Annie, and live and work with her long-lost mother, Tara McClean. Kaly waits for her husband, Tommy, to return from the war. Word from the east is that soldiers are dying of influenza and she prays that Tommy is not one of them.?When an out-of-town woman named Amelia suddenly dies in Dr. Fletcher's office, Kaly adopts her ten-year-old son while Marika tries to learn more about the mysterious woman and the circumstances regarding her death. Is she another casualty of the pandemic, or the victim of manmade foul play? Who is this beautiful ghost, and is her demise a portent of the fate that awaits the residents of Butte?

Idaho Madams uncovers the enigmatic & salacious lives of 30 women who ran brothels in the Gem State from the 1850s to the 1980s.