In the Shade of HorsesVivian escapes her wounded past to work as a hospice nurse for a dying painter in the wilderness of Idaho. As she comes to know Ruth Stiers and her grown sons, Todd and Matt, she uncovers a family secret with the aid of a phantom horse legend, and finds a love she has never known before.LightspeedIn the early days of a very close future, Owen Bland is on his way to Vegas, a place inhabited by the obscenely wealthy and the obscenely poor. He has taken a job as a tutor, escaping his savage boarding school life. His employer, Evelyn Sales, is beautiful, rich and brilliant. As Bland comes to love this complicated woman, he finds himself drawn into the terrible secret she cannot leave behind.