In 1904, Roger Andrews takes his wife Claire and their five children to a canyon home they have never seen. On the way, Roger is killed. Claire cuts her waist-length hair and puts on Roger's clothes and poses as big brother Clarence to get them safely to their destination. Their new home is in Collins Canyon below Misty Mountain and the twin falls. The high falls is so high the water forms a mist that gives the mountain its name. The lower falls is only a few hundred feet high. The Misty River then flows through Collins Canyon, down the rapids, past Twin Falls City, and on through Triangle...

In September, 1879, five-year-old Jamie is on her way with her family in a wagon train going from Granada to Santa Fe. They left Cincinnati by train so her father can go to Santa Fe for his health and set up a brewery. Jamie hears rifle shots and screams and wakes up from her nap and sees her eleven-year-old girlfriend Laura stripped naked and staked out on a hill by renegade whites. She sees Laura's father dead on the ground. Jamie sees her father tortured and her mother gang-raped. Jamie is terrified. Jamie grabs her pink blankie, jumps barefoot out of the back of the covered wagon, crawls...

What happens one summer, when the best friend and buddy you ever had in your whole life turns out to be a girl instead of a boy like you and she is trapped in a family with an abusive father? You find a way to get her off of the mountain and into the city. And you make her your college roommate. Back home after graduation, Jim is a teacher and Curly is a nurse. An angry abusive father with the help of thirteen relatives with shotguns force Jim and Curly to deal with their true feelings for one another. Later Curly is called as nurse for Ann's sick baby. When Ann's baby dies, Curly decides to...

Hallie gave birth to Jeanne who was a clone. Jeanne's father died in a starship disaster two hundred and eighty years ago. Jeanne's mother died four hundred years ago back on Earth. Jeanne was born with a constant psychic connection with two boys she does not know. Jeanne could not stand to be touched by anyone but Hallie. Jeanne ran away from Meld School until she was 7 years old (11 in Earth years). She ran away to be alone in the dark and warmth at the back of her mind. After she learned the names of the two boys in her head, Jeanne could get into the mind of anybody she thought about,...

Once a year, Ayan, the red moon, mounts his mistress Lydya, the white moon, and his red-tinted shape eclipses her white beauty. Denys blushes as she thinks of its symbolic meaning. "If it weren't for Shoreen," the Tara girl whispers, "there would be dozens of marriages during the eclipse." Every five years the dark green and pock-marked moon, Shoreen, sneaks up behind Ayan and Lydya with mischief on her mind. 240 years ago, Shoreen was in the sky and a starship was destroyed. 100 years ago the Smythes executed Tara males, enslaved Tara females, and drove the Tara into hiding. The Smythes plan...

The Qarka have been secretly visiting Earth for thousands of years. Two thousand years ago they brought goats home to Qarka because they liked goat's milk and goat cheese. The Centauri Empire conquered Qarka a thousand years ago. Over the last few hundred years, the Centauri have taken Qarka Girls as sex slaves. Now they are secretly taking Earth Girls as sex slaves while looking for a criminal who escaped to Earth. Arri Tolin is a Qarka Girl who was stranded on Earth 24 years ago. She had a mixed-blood baby she left behind. Now her daughter and the Centauri criminal hope to stop the Centauri...