Christine Gentry
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"Parker's deft evocation of a lost era in Western American history-the life of the mining boom town-and her complex characterization make Leaden Skies an absorbing read."-Stephanie Barron, national bestselling author
It is summer 1880, and Inez Stannert, one of the partners in the Silver Queen Saloon in Leadville, Colorado, travels with her photographer friend Susan to the fashionable summer retreat of Manitou for a reunion with her son, now a toddler...
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"[T]he snowballing pace will keep the reader turning the pages until the unexpected finish."-Publishers Weekly
When paleoartist Ansel Phoenix finds a burnt body hanging from the mouth of her life-sized Allosaurus replica outside the Big Toe Natural History Museum, she starts digging. An Indian poacher has been cutting out fossil carnosaur tracks along the Redwater River, and the Bureau of Land Management is threatening to close the museum and move...