Native Mythology

Hopi migration myths illuminate The Last Creation, the third book in The Arizona Series. After six years of searching for the runaway, Rose, Guy finally finds her working on the Rawlings’ nearly dismantled cattle ranch near Winslow in northern Arizona. The girl is now a woman still using her adopted name, Jane. Although medication helps her manage her bi-polar symptoms, her first impulse upon seeing Guy is to run. Alternating chapters describe her deteriorating mental state as she camps among the Homolovi ruins on the Little Colorado River; her pursuit by Guy and her adoptive parents, ...

At war with his stepmother, in trouble at school, and desperately unhappy, thirteen-year-old Ray finds himself shipped off to distant family in the high mountain hollows of Western Virginia. There Ray encounters a strange world of mystery, where nothing quite makes sense. The mystery deepens when he discovers a great stone snake carved on the wall of an old coal mine high in the hollow. A piece of that stone draws Ray into a conflict that echoes an ancient tragedy played out over sixteen hundred years before.