"Shadows on the Land" is Book Three, the final volume of the Corrales Valley Trilogy.
"Shadows on the Land" is the third and final volume of the Corrales Valley Trilogy, resuming near the turn of the twentieth century, and following the final tragedy of the Bonneau family and the coming of age of Gaetano Perna.
After being wounded in France, James Parrish returns home to marry lovely Emily MacKenzie. They move a small herd onto Corrales land and put down roots as the first Anglos in the village.
The fortunes of the Apodacas, Bonneaus, Pernas, and Parrishes are followed through the great 1918 influenza epidemic, bootlegging and prohibition, Ku Klux Klan violence, and Great Depression.
Finally, there is the shock of Pearl Harbor. Young friends, Joe Apodaca and Holt Parrish are swept up in the horror of the Bataan Death March, while Holt's younger brother, Lee, pilots a B-25 over the jungles of Burma, and crippled Reuben Apodaca is an awed eyewitness to the dawn of the nuclear age in the deserts of Alamagordo.
Fourth Book in the Southern Swallow Series finds the Academician Li K'ai-men in exile on Hai-nan Island. China has a new invasion threat. A showdown between ingenuity and technology explodes as the Sung Dynasty tries to preserve itself.
Sometimes, vacations just don't turn out the way you hoped they would. An idyllic wilderness house boating get-a-way soon turns into a hellish nightmare...
First Place Winner in historical fiction in the Purple Dragonfly Awards for excellence in children's literature, and named a U.P. Notable Classic.
Feel like you are in the moment nearly 100 years ago with a young girl, daughter of Finnish immigr
