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Light of the Northern Dancers

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Description

WINNER: Willa Award for Western FictionWINNER: Will Rogers Medallion Award for Maverick FictionFiery aristocrat, Eden Rose, uprooted from her native Scotland, has tended a foundering marriage and failing ranch at the corner of Crazy Woman Creek and the Powder River for a decade. Best friend, backwoods spitfire Maddie True, has her own woes a few miles away: widowed with a passel of young children, and caretaker to her addled father. Abandoned by her husband during the height of Wyoming Territory's worst drought in history, Eden depends on her inept brother, Aiden, to see her through the coming winter. But when he disappears into the wild Bighorn mountains, she shuns Maddie's fearful cautions, teaming with enigmatic Lakota holy man, Intah, to find her brother before the wicked snow holds them all hostage.

Product Details

PublisherHistria Fiction
Publish DateNovember 07, 2017
Pages396
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781945447495
Dimensions9.0 X 6.0 X 0.9 inches | 1.3 pounds

About the Author

Robin F. Gainey grew up in a household full of pencils, erasers, Underwood and Royal typewriters (one of each), and cases of liquid paper. Raised by her author-grandmother and an extended family of eleven women and two men, there was always something to write about, much of it hidden from the naked eye. Throw in a secret side of the family recently revealed and we now have a multi-volume saga with a predominent theme: Transformation. "Write what you know" is mostly what Robin does. And, what she doesn't know she makes up. It's fiction, after all.Not fiction: Robin has traveled many roads. She partnered in the creation and opening of The Gainey Vineyard in Santa Barbara County, California. She presided over various culinary events offered at the winery and, with friend Julia Child and others, helped establish the American Institute of Wine and Food. She also oversaw Gainey Fountainhead Arabians and the continued breeding and showing of champion Arabian horses which was begun by the Gainey family in 1939 in Minnesota and Arizona. Later, she returned to Seattle to find her heart in writing. She won a Rupert Hughes Award for Fiction for a short story upon which JACK OF HEARTS is based. Robin has completed two novels and is working on a third. She divides her time between her two favorite cities, Rome, Italy and Seattle. She is an active trustee of Pacific Northwest Ballet and when she is not writing, she enjoys reading, cooking, horseback riding, skiing the mountains of Colorado and traveling the Inside Passage of Western Canada aboard a boat with one husband, two daughters, two Jack Russells and a cat. All, utterly transforming. Always, looking beyond.

Reviews

"Light of the Northern Dancers is a powerful novel of a woman's journey, thought-provoking and unsettling in its authenticity and unflinching honesty." -- Susan Wiggs, NYT Bestselling Romance Author

"Half of what happens to us may have reason, the rest is chaos. Robin F. Gainey's second novel, Light of the Northern Dancers, has this brand of existentialism. It' real and it doesn't let go!" -- Tom Skerritt, Award Winning Actor, Writer, Director

"Brutal and beautiful, unflinching and hopeful, Robin Gainey's Light of the Northern Dancers reveals the triumphs and hardships of pioneer life in the Wyoming Territory in a powerful story of two women surviving against all odds. Gainey's prose is as lush as her story is gripping--a literary page turner!"-- Lisa Alber, award-winning author of Whispers in the Mist and Path Into Darkness

"A wonderful story, full of surprises. I highly recommend Robin F. Gainey's, Light of the Northern Dancers." -- Lynn V. Andrews, New York Times and internationally best-selling author of the Medicine Woman Series

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