Stelle Lyford Dakin, numbed with grief, dreamed of her husband, her lost love. Still, she was tempted by forbidden passion. Prescott Farrar knew what he wanted -- and how to get it. But the real prize he wanted was not Stella, but her land. For benea...
Explores the lives behind the headlines of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, evoking anew the scope of tragedy through the vision of literary fiction. It was called the crime of the century, and it was front-page news: the Lindbergh baby kidnapping...
"Ryder's is the rare and wonderful prose that engages all five of the senses." -- Whiting Award winner Lydia Peele, author of Reasons for and Advantages of BreathingPamela Ryder's stories transport us into realms as varied as the language that tells ...
Interconnected stories depicting the last years of a WWII bomber pilot, his relationship with his daughter as both child and adult, and his drift into infirmity and death.When life dwindles to its irrevocable conclusion, recollections are illuminated...