Bøger af Victoria S Pollard

Tumbleweeds is the continuation of the story of Lily and Thomas Grayson. 1907 Las Vegas, Nevada is no place to raise a family with its prostitutes, gunfighters and assorted hooligans. To make matters worse, women are disappearing from the town. Lily and Thomas discover the mutilated corpse of one of them out in the desert. When a young acquaintance disappears, Lily, along with her Chinese major-domo and a Paiute woman, apprehend the murderer, who vows to kill them all. The murderer is sentenced to prison in northern Nevada, hundreds of miles away. He escapes, is spotted in Las Vegas but evades capture by vanishing into the vast Mojave Desert. Then a violent encounter with a renegade Indian changes Lily's life forever. Tumbleweeds is Volume II of The Meadows Saga. The series explores the development of the town of Las Vegas, Spanish for the meadows, from it's earliest days until its centennial. The books are about relationships between men and women and parents and children in the context of their communities, physical environment and the Zeitgeists of their times. The stories also depict the evolution of our country and the world during the dynamic changes of the Twentieth Century.

In May 1905, Lily Johnston impulsively leaves her pampered city life behind to travel to the nascent town of Las Vegas, Nevada. After her husband's death, crippling panic attacks have plagued her. Belief that reuniting with her daughter, Andy, will make them stop motivates her to board a train and head into the desert. Once there, the austere conditions and harsh climate of the tent town convince her that she must take her pregnant daughter home in order to save her life. When Andy refuses to leave, Lily decides the only way to keep her safe is by living there temporarily. Life in the raucous Wild West town is appalling and dangerous with frequent gunfights and prostitutes parading in the streets. Refined and proper, Lily struggles to retain the principles that define her and make her feel secure. But the place and a friendship with a gambler, reputed to be a gunfighter, challenge her beliefs about everything, including herself .