Bøker av Elizabeth Fackler

In New Mexico Territory of the 1880s, Allyson Clayton is sent East to attend school against her wishes. The U.S. Marshal with a prisoner in custody is forced to accompany Allyson and her aunt in the stagecoach. Outlaws waylay the coach to rescue the prisoner, Morgan Coeur, who has been flirting with Allyson. When he invites her to join him, she accepts. Quickly learning she has made a mistake, Allyson strives to protect herself in the outlaws' lair where Morgan has left her. He returns and she asks him to take her home. When he does, she discovers a long-standing enmity between Morgan and her brother, Hect, stemming from a land dispute between their fathers. Hect credits Allyson's seduction as another act of revenge on Morgan's part, but their love is true and guides her attempts to clear Morgan's name and reclaim what has been lost.

Separated as toddlers in the Catholic orphanage where their mother had left them, Leah Broome has spent her young life craving the love of her twin sister, Lara. When a letter from the convent announces Lara's death and the impending arrival of her daughter, Prairie Rose, Leah prepares to welcome the five-year-old as if she were Lara herself. Arriving in town to meet his daughter on the train, Tom Woden claims to be Prairie's father. The girl, however, is half Wind River Shoshone, restricting Tom's paternity to the dates of his marriage to Lara. When he writes the church where the ceremony occurred, he learns the edifice burned and all records were lost, leaving his claim unproven. Uncomfortable with his intimate knowledge of the sister whose friendship she has coveted, Leah confronts her competitor for her niece's affections. Due to the necessity of her job as a waitress, Leah has scant time to spend with Prairie while Tom, riding the largesse of a winning poker hand, has his days free. Though the solution to their quandary seems obvious to everyone else, Leah's friend Molly fails to see how the principled, naive Miss Broome could happily join with the wickedly streetwise Mr. Woden.

Seth Strummar: the missing years. This collection of short pieces has various sources. "Adios and Run" and "Double-Cross" were published in the anthology Adios and Run. "Double-Cross" was also published in the anthology Desperadoes. The remaining chapters, under slightly different guises, were the flashback sequences in the novel Road from Betrayal. Together they provide Seth's history prior to the break-out novel of the series, Bone Justice. Aimed at true aficionados, this is the beginning arc of Seth's life from striking out on his own at seventeen to celebrating his fifty-first birthday.

The sign of the Wild Bull Saloon lures Seth into Welty's domain with the sweet succulence of Isabella. Entangled in a storm of impending violence that has all the makings of a range war, Seth uses his unique skills to even the tally and squash the county-wide conflict. Along the way, he learns of the tragic event that followed his last visit to Austin when he and his partner, Ben Allister, killed a Texas Ranger. The repercussions of that event shape Seth's future as he leaves Eldorado for the comforts of the wilderness.

Seth risks his progress away from violence to save a rich girl held for ransom. Dabbling in pleasures the taste for which he thought he'd left behind, he traps himself in his old reputation. To escape that backlash, Seth must choose between strengthening his new love or riding on as a lone wolf.

The closing book of the series, Lone Justice finds Rico fighting to redeem Seth's past by tempting him into a new bank-robbing scheme to balance his losses.

A fat girl comes of age in the shadow of her suicidal sister; a nubile beauty navigates the fast lane of hustling drinks; an insecure late bloomer graduates from a doomed love affair; a new bride loses herself in the haunted South; a mother and son meld family truths; a hubristic architect constructs her own defeat; a lonely señorita finds her destiny in the love of an outlaw; this and all journeys end with running for your life. These are the stories collected here.

Investigating a murder in a family too much like his own, El Paso Homicide Detective Devon Gray walks a tightrope between protecting his kin and upholding the law. When his ex-con brother is implicated in the case, Devon strives to keep silent about his brother’s complicity while seeking the truth. Award-winning author Elizabeth Fackler deftly portrays the two families opposed across the field of one detective’s love and honor.

Lily Cassidy’s childhood happiness is shattered when her father is murdered by political opponents. Powerless to act against her father’s killer, she consents to a loveless marriage with Emmett Moss in exchange for his promise of vengeance. What follows this bitter deal leaves Lily standing on her own as the matriarch of a legend. When Emmett’s niece arrives at his ranch, the lady-like Claire presents a cool contrast to tomboy Lily. Known for her common sense more than her beauty, Lily forges a friendship with the delicate Claire that outlasts everything in their lives except the land itself. Set in New Mexico Territory in the 1870s, Texas Lily is the story of Lily’s courage and fortitude to save her family, Claire’s love of an outlaw that sends her into and out of madness, and the profoundly intertwined fates of their offspring.