The Butterfly House (MIRA)

Literature & Fiction

Preston, Marcia

Contemporary

Mira/ Mills & Boon

"I was fifteen when my mother finally told me about my father. She didn't mean to. She meant to keep it a secret forever. If she'd succeeded, it might have saved us all." Roberta and Cynthia are destined to be best friends forever. When both your fathers are missing, you have a lot in common. Unable to cope with her alcoholic mother, Roberta finds Cynthia's house the perfect, carefree refuge. Cynthia's mother keeps beautiful rare butterflies on her sunporch and she's everything Roberta wishes her own mother could be. But just like the delicate creatures they nurture, the women are living in a hothouse. Years later, a hauntingly familiar stranger knocks at Roberta Dutreau's door, forcing her to begin a journey back to her childhood. But is she ready to know the truth about what happened to her, her best friend Cynthia and their mothers that tragic night ten years ago?

The Butterfly House

Literary

MIRA

Branded the wife of a defector and sent to prison, Trudy Hulst, wondering if her husband survived his attempted escape past the newly constructed Berlin Wall, makes a break for freedom, determined to find the son she had to leave behind. Original. 40,000 first printing.

Trudy's Promise

Genre Fiction

The Butterfly House by Marcia Preston released on Dec 28, 2004 is available now for purchase.

As a child, Bobbie Lee found refuge from her lonely life at her best friend's house. Rockhaven was a place of magic, colored by the butterflies that Cincy Jaines's mother, Lenora, studied. Her friendship with Cincy and Lenora soon became Bobbie's compass. But the tangled intimacies between them began to unravel, and in one night, Rockhaven became a place of unspeakable tragedy. Now, a decade later, the long shadows of that night continue to haunt Bobbie, despite her attempts to hide from the past. When a stranger with ties to Lenora and Cincy arrives at her doorstep, she is forced to confront the memories she has tried to avoid, and the dark secret at the heart of the tragedy slowly emerges.

United States

The Piano Man by Marcia Preston released on Mar 28, 2006 is available now for purchase.

The Piano Man

An act of desperation divides a mother and her child. Only an act of faith can reunite them. Trudy Hulst has no idea if her husband survived his attempted escape past the newly constructed Berlin Wall. But she knows too well the consequences of his actions. Now branded the wife of a defector, she faces a life in prison. With no real choice, she is forced to follow, praying she can find a way to claim their child once she’s in West Berlin. Trudy survives a harrowing break for freedomonly to learn her husband was shot during his escape. Terribly alone, she wanders the wall like a ghost, living for brief glimpses of her son, now out of reach behind barbed wire and armed soldiers. Desperate to regain her child, Trudy begins a journey that leads her to America,where she continues an odyssey of hope to find her son.

Marik Youngblood left her father's Oklahoma ranch—and the child she gave up for adoption—intent on becoming an artist instead of a rancher. Her father's death brings her back to a failing cattle operation, a pile of debt and a haunting need to find the child she left behind. Leasing out the land for wind towers solves one problem but creates another—the hostility of her neighbors, Burt and Lena Gurdman. Lena Gurdman may be poor and uneducated, with a husband who's quick to blame her for any perceived wrong, but she knows she and Marik have more in common than the property line between them. When the bones of an infant are uncovered on Killdeer Ridge Ranch, both Marik and Lena are left with questions about secrets they thought were buried long ago.

The Wind Comes Sweeping

Perhaps She'll Die (Chantalene Mysteries)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Stirling Press

Chantalene has terrible nightmares from when she was a child-a dark barn in a moonlit field, her mother inside, screaming, her father hanging from the rafters. Four hooded figures leave the scene, their faces hidden in shadow. But in the deep recesses of her memory, she knows who they are.After going away to college, Chantalene returns to her tiny, rural hometown in Southeastern Oklahoma determined to expose the people who hanged her father for a crime he didn't commit. In the process, she runs afoul of the law and is suspected of a separate murder. With the help of another former resident, attorney Drew Sander, she challenges the entire town in order to find the truth, including the foster parents who took her in and loved her.

Perhaps She'll Die

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The Butterfly House (MIRA)

The Butterfly House

Trudy's Promise

The Butterfly House (MIRA)

The Butterfly House

The Piano Man

Trudy's Promise

The Wind Comes Sweeping

Perhaps She'll Die (Chantalene Mysteries)

Perhaps She'll Die