"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.
A delightfully rare Historical Novel. 85% a biography of a spy, musician, mother and her neice trapped behind German lines in World War I. This background led to a diplomatic post in World War II. Aged 92, Vera disclosed her past life one year before
