The Happiness Lottery By Elizabeth Zinn It is Christmas Eve in an affluent suburb of Detroit, located on a lake looking across to the Canadian shore. A horrific accident launches a series of events that generate the story in The Happiness Lottery. Anna Thiers' parents are killed instantly, and she will spend months recovering from her grave injuries - both to her body and her spirit. A compassionate psychologist, Peter Wheaton, guides her through the first weeks after she awakens from a coma, and becomes a steadfast friend throughout the book. He also takes on the job of counseling her...

Heart's Blood is set in the borderlands of southern Arizona, and spans two generations beginning in the early 1970s. It opens in a flashback when Ty McNeil, as a young child, watches his mother lowered into her grave. We jump forward 25 years to his fateful decision to leave an itinerant life for a ramshackle ranch on the Arizona/Mexico border, taking with him a bronco named Red-Eye. He reunites with Ware and Suzanne Lewis, elderly neighbors who are like family to him and support his efforts to start anew. He also renews a friendship with Lisa, his former wife from a brief marriage, and her...