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Letters from Elk City is a historical romance based on the Oregon Coast and in the American South. In the novel, high-standing military men have relationships with heroic minority women who challenge both tradition and the standards of their day. At the heart of the story are Sir Francis Drake and his lover Maria, a freed African slave; Philip Davis and his future wife, Carissa; and Philip's descendent Billy Davis and his wife Sarah, a forensic anthropologist. Other characters include George Pickett and his Haida wife Morning Mist and Phil Sheridan and his lover Sidnayoh.

Featuring stories of the Oregon Coast. A group of backwoods types banquet on giant oysters - only to find later their rare find was priceless. An aged former Marine shoots the biggest elk ever seen in North America, dies, and is given a Viking funeral. A man whose libido reaches epic proportions whenever it thunders is with a beautiful woman when a great storm comes.

Terrorists take down the Internet, resulting in the total collapse of civilization. A science fiction fantasy? Or a story taken from today's headlines.

Amid the chaos of The Fall, Phil Davis, former Marine, fulfills a promise to return a young woman to her father. But when they seek shelter in each other's arms in a raging blizzard, there are consequences that will haunt them for years to come - just as Phil is finally reunited once again with the woman from his youth that even the horrors of war could not make him forget.

The Healers

Many generations of women of color battle racism, slavery, and war to help others as natural healers. The major characters include:

Yejide, a young Yoruba girl who is taken from her village and sold into slavery in Colonial Virginia in the early seventeenth century, only to later have her child seized from her.

Abigail, a girl whose African ancestry is all but forgotten until she is kidnapped and sold into slavery in South Carolina.

Cecelia, a young girl whose natural healing abilities approach the supernatural and who flees a plantation and is taken in by the Cherokee.

Yemaya, named after the Ifa goddess of the oceans, who battles prejudice and bigotry to rise to the top of the medical profession.

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