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When college professor Ellie McKay walks into the Maverick Bar in Farmington, New Mexico, late one evening, she plans to get drunk, not engaged. But within thirty minutes, she’s met cowboy Al Robison, he’s proposed to her, and she’s accepted. Al only knows that Ellie is attractive, vulnerable, and single; he doesn’t know that she has been on the run for weeks from a sociopath who killed her surgeon boyfriend in Pennsylvania and raped and tortured her.Reeling from the ordeal and deeply scarred emotionally and physically, Ellie flees first to Paris, where she seeks refuge in the bottle. Then, coming to her senses, she returns to Pittsburgh to resume her life and her career, believing she will be safe there. When that proves untrue, she takes to the road, no longer caring much what happens to her.
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I've always been in love with words and sentences. The first books I remember reading came from the Airstream bookmobile that travelled once a week to the general store in rural Skamania, Washington. The first stories I wrote (at age 9) were in a spiral notebook and illustrated with magazine cut-outs.After living in the South and East where I was a college professor of French literature, I work now as an editor, creativity coach, and visual artist in Portland, Oregon.My memoir, Sober Truths: The Making of an Honest Woman, was a finalist for a 2008 Oregon Book Award in literary excellence. With the help of my three cats, I am currently finishing up a novel called Witnessing the Creation. It's a road-trip story about art, witchcraft, and growing up.