Jo Ann Mapson Livres

This book explores the complexities of love and loss in three lives changed forever. Glory Solomon, a young widow, holds tight to her memories while she struggles to hold on to her central California farm. Fourteen-year-old Juniper Maguire is the lone survivor of a family decimated by her sister's disappearance. She arrives on Glory's doorstep pierced, tattooed, angry, and homeless. Joseph Vigil is a former Albuquerque police officer and crime lab photographer who was shot during a meth lab bust that took the life of his best friend. Now disabled and in constant pain, he arrives in California to fulfill his dream of photographing the state's giant trees, including Solomon's Oak, a two-hundred-year-old white oak growing on Glory's farm.--From book jacket

Winner of New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards (2014) in Fiction (other) and Best Book/New Mexico categories Skye Elliot is given a choice after her car accident—jail or rehab—and her ex-husband, a bull rider who introduced her to the party scene, gets custody of their four-year-old daughter Gracie. It takes Skye eight months to get clean, but the day she is released, she has one plan: to be a good mother—better, at least, than Skye's own selfish mother and absent dad. Owen Garret hasn't seen his daughter in ten years. He, too, needs to make amends. Newly out of prison, he picks her up from rehab and together they set off to find Gracie, and to forge a relationship that transcends the hurt and anger that have brewed between them for almost a decade. In the meantime, they find Margaret Yearwood, too—Owen's lost love whom he left when he turned himself in for a long-ago crime. Owen's Daughter is a stand-alone novel that brings back characters from Mapson's treasured novel Blue Rodeo, and introduces them to the beloved cast of Solomon's Oak and Finding Casey. With its father-daughter story and characters who overcome personal failings against great odds, Owen's Daughter is a story of love and family that will enchant Mapson fans both old and new.

Phoebe miluje svou květinovou farmu zděděnou po tetě. Phoebin bratr, úspěšný podnikatel, zamýšlí cenné pozemky připravit k výstavbě a draze prodat. Phoebe s pomocí tří dalších žen však o farmu bojuje. Všechny ženy si sebou nesou minulost, která se v knize otvírá a amy společně s autorkou vnikáme do jejich tajemství.