Tales of Pitchlyn County

Pitchlyn County—where the door  between past and present, reality and supernatural is never quite closed. A LITTLE PEACE AND QUIET, The COVENANT, and EVERMORE are set in the dreaming hills of  Oklahoma where past and present seem not so very far apart, and the land is almost as much a  character in the story as the people are.

EVERMORE:

The Oklahoma mansion was built by a man  mourning his beloved. It is a beautiful  monument to their devotion; and for Elizabeth  Richards, it seems the perfect place to begin  again after the death of her grandmother.

But when she arrives, she feels an eerie  certainty that she has been here before...and  that her recent dreams of star-crossed lovers were not really dreams at all . . . .

She realizes  that she is tied  inescapably to the past, and that her future depends on finding a way to heal a ghost's  broken heart.

A nominee for Romantic Times Magazine's Reviewers' Choice Award, Evermore was first  published by Warner Books in 1993.

THE COVENANT:

After witnessing her husband's brutal murder,  Megan retreats to a tiny Oklahoma village where  she hopes to rebuild her life. But now it is not  just her own memories that haunt her: Ghosts  and memories of the people who dwelt on the  same land in the 1800s complicate her emotional  recovery. And real life isn't much fun either, with  the local police knocking down her door in the dead of night . . . .

First published by Harper Monogram in 1995, The Covenant is a Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award  nominee, RWA Rita winner, and Holt Medallion  finalist. This story mingles past and present, ghosts  and the wounded living, in a compelling  drama of danger and love and, ultimately, the  triumph of the human spirit.

A LITTLE PEACE AND QUIET:

 Dr. Anne Locke has saved countless lives in her  inner-city practice—and wounded her own spirit  in the process. Moving to a small Oklahoma town  to restore the Victorian house she has just bought seems like the perfect change of pace.

But her newfound peace is threatened by forces she cannot understand when she and her unwilling new neighbor, a burned-out Dallas cop, discover in a sealed room at the top of her house the skeleton of a  centuries-dead warrior arranged for ceremonial  burial with his grave-goods around him.

Valuable grave-goods: priceless artifacts that  someone wants to steal, and something will  protect to the death . . . and beyond . . . .

This National Readers' Choice Award  Winner was first published by Harper Monogram in 1996.