The Badlands had won the first time. Angry rivals of the Marquis de Mores had brought his financial empire to its knees. Defeated, he and his family were forced to retreat, taking their ambition and glorious dreams with them. Now, years later, th...
FLAMES OF WAR, FLAMES OF PASSION They were outcasts, the proud Hamiltons of Ashe Hill, shunned since the flames of the Civil War had destroyed the lands around them, leaving Ashe Hill mysteriously untouched. Caitlin Hamilton wondered why they had ...
Departing his native France, the arrogant, aristocratic Antoine de Vallomborsa, nobly entitled the Marquis de Mores, arrived in America determined to establish a financial empire in the Badlands of the Dakotas. Handsome and spirited, he won the heart...
Back in print, an astonishing novel of art, obsession, and the secrets kept by two very different womenIn Kathryn Davis’s second novel, Frances Thorn, waitress and single parent of twins, finds herself transformed by the dazzling magnetism of Helle...
Two couples -- businessman Bobby Rose and his artist wife, Carole Ridingham: his partner, Coleman Snow, and Snow's wife, Ruth Farr -- have gone on a walking tour in Wales, during which a fatal accident occurs. The question of what happened preocc...
Marie Antoinette “tells her own story” in this “sage, mercurial, and ravishing” novel (The New Yorker)Versailles tells the story of an expansive spirit locked in a pretty body and an impossible moment in history. As the novel begins, fourteen...
In a thin place, according to legend, the membrane separating this world from the spirit world is almost nonexistent. The small New England town of Varennes is such a place, and Kathryn Davis transports us there -- revealing a surprising pageant of l...
Lisa Jones had always willingly been Daddy's little princess. A product of one of the most economically deprived and socially intolerant areas of the country-the clamflats along the shore of northern Maine-she learned to hold all men up on a pedestal...
A spellbinding novel about transience and mortality, by one of the most original voices in American literatureThe Silk Road begins on a mat in yoga class, deep within a labyrinth on a settlement somewhere in the icy north, under the canny guidance of...