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Fifteen-year-old U.S. National Champion figure skater Jackie Ellis is among the favorites to win the World Championships in Boston. Her mother, Anne, a former Olympian, coached her daughter’s inexplicable rise to the pinnacle of the sport. But Jackie’s near-perfect performance comes to a devastating halt when she fails to execute a difficult...

Ida Chatfield, a nineteen-year-old girl, goes missing three years after her dear friend dies from poisoning, and the day after, another young friend falls fifty feet from the fire bell tower in Aspen, Colorado. The authorities ruled Ida Bell’s death a suicide, but her parents and those who knew her know better. This novel is based on factual...

Aspen, Colorado, held secrets during the late nineteenth century. Owen Stewart, a retired current-day newspaper reporter, intends to spend his retirement writing historical nonfiction. But the ghosts of the distant past have found him.

A forgotten file box from the local historical society holds memorabilia, letters, and newspaper articles...

Darcy Vincent, A Swiss ski racer, suffers a traumatic brain injury and is confined to German hospitals at the advent of World War II. She escapes Nazi eugenics, a scheme to create superior Arian athletes. In an attempted suicide, she jumps off a cliff, landing in Victorian-era Colorado. While experiencing the restrictive roles of women in the...

This novel is told from the perspective of a nineteenth-century twin girl, Imma Cathew. Her sister, Gemma, is abducted and murdered in an abandoned house in Leadville, Colorado, on Halloween night. Imma plays detective and finds Kate Warne, a historical figure who once worked for the Pinkerton Detective Agency as the first female undercover...

Rachel Riggs immigrated from Ireland as a child and discovers the life of a single female in mining-era Colorado. She lives for over a century, dealing with the good, the evil, and the spirits of her past. Rachel sees miners and loggers die and return as her hometown of Virginia Creek goes from boomtown to ghost town to Hippie commune.

East of Sundown is a series of short stories about a boy coming of age in rural Colorado. From hauntings to hero's to hippies, from acts of stupidly and suicides to lives lived in the wreckage of society, from cowboys to convicts the boy reinvents himself and becomes an old man with memories. Asking himself, "What if?"

A post-Olympic drama of Jackie Ellis, her eating disorders, haunted memories, marriage, and mother to a gifted but non-verbal and hard-of-hearing daughter. Told from her husband’s point of view, he tries to unravel the web of his wife’s past and what he believes is her dissociative identity disorder.

Kellyn Landwight is born into a legacy of wealth and titles — Dukes and Dutchesses. But her life comes crashing down when she is fifteen, and the Landwight Manor House burns, killing her father.

Kellyn’s mother had died giving birth, or so her father claimed, but Kellyn discovers the truth about her death and how both parents were less than...

Curated short stories of hauntings, coming of age, and the uncalled-for.