Jaq and Kate are devastated when their daughter dies as a result of a catastrophic birth accident. They give up lucrative Wall Street careers and flee to the magnificent mountain country of Idaho. But they discover that they cannot outrun the past. Jaq finds himself being hunted by a monstrous spider, while Kate keeps hearing soft cries coming from the baby monitor that she could never bear to part with. Finally, they land and release a Fantastical Fish in a rain of tears and blood on the Lost River. For help they turn to a local priest, who turns out to be much more, to guide them on a quest...

THE UR LEGEND trilogy that began with Sun Valley Moon Mountains continues in The Girl from Ipanema. Once again, fantasy is its fabric, but this second book goes deeper, weaving a complex tale of a dystopian future. Old favorites and new characters engage in romance and conflict in preparation for an epic confrontation that will determine the fate of Earth.

Mattie, now a young woman, travels to Pyongyang, North Korea. There she discovers love and rediscovers her past, but at a terrible price-just as a rogue asteroid slams into and melts the Greenland ice cap, creating an environmental crisis....