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Starting Over Far Away
1921. THE ALASKA TERRITORY
Nurse Leona Herkimer arrives in the Tlingit village of Hoonah to help the tribe through frontier plagues and wilderness calamities. Together, she and teacher Ivy Bolton face misfortunes, threats to their patients and students, dangerous wildlife, and the frailties of loving roughhewn men. Yet Leona's greatest peril is her own past's hold on her.
1946. WASHINTON STATE'S OLYMPIC PENINSULA
Ivy, now a senior with attitude, befriends a young amputee fresh from war. She becomes his support through mental and physical recovery. Over lemonade and macaroons on the front porch, Ivy tells him a story of a past he never knew.
Nurse Leona Herkimer arrives in the Tlingit village of Hoonah to help the tribe through frontier plagues and wilderness calamities. Together, she and teacher Ivy Bolton face misfortunes, threats to their patients and students, dangerous wildlife, and the frailties of loving roughhewn men. Yet Leona's greatest peril is her own past's hold on her.
1946. WASHINTON STATE'S OLYMPIC PENINSULA
Ivy, now a senior with attitude, befriends a young amputee fresh from war. She becomes his support through mental and physical recovery. Over lemonade and macaroons on the front porch, Ivy tells him a story of a past he never knew.
333 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 7, 2022
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About the author
Linda B. Myers
22 books21 followersI won my first creative contest in the sixth grade for my Clean Up Fix Up Paint Up Week poster. After a career in advertising in Chicago, I traded in my snow boots for rain boots and moved to the Pacific Northwest. I am a coffee addict and am pushed around by my Maltese, Dotty. I write a monthly humor column for a home town paper, Sequim Gazette.
My newest novel is historical fiction set on the 1890s Oregon coast. In FOG COAST RUNAWAY, a young girl finds hardened loggers, sailors and wagtails less formidable than the family she must outrun.
LESSONS OF EVIL was my first novel and will soon be edited and updated as CREATION OF MADNESS. If I can figure out how to delete the old version I will!
FUN HOUSE CHRONICLES introduces a group of quirky characters who meet in a nursing home. It led to my mystery series about PI Bear Jacobs and gang. Yes they are old but they are smart, engaged, solve dark crimes and stand tall on their canes and walkers. I call these series cozies with bite. I am working on a fourth in the series.
In SECRETS OF THE BIG ISLAND, a cold case erupts in a tranquil Hawaiian village. This leads to chilling suspense amid hot tropical nights.
THE SLIGHTLY ALTERED HISTORY OF CASCADIA is a fantasy in which a spirit must figure out how the gods screwed up in the creation of humans and fix it. This is a funny quest, a fantasy for grown ups.
As long as you keep liking my stories, I'll keep telling them. Thanks for stopping by. Linda
My newest novel is historical fiction set on the 1890s Oregon coast. In FOG COAST RUNAWAY, a young girl finds hardened loggers, sailors and wagtails less formidable than the family she must outrun.
LESSONS OF EVIL was my first novel and will soon be edited and updated as CREATION OF MADNESS. If I can figure out how to delete the old version I will!
FUN HOUSE CHRONICLES introduces a group of quirky characters who meet in a nursing home. It led to my mystery series about PI Bear Jacobs and gang. Yes they are old but they are smart, engaged, solve dark crimes and stand tall on their canes and walkers. I call these series cozies with bite. I am working on a fourth in the series.
In SECRETS OF THE BIG ISLAND, a cold case erupts in a tranquil Hawaiian village. This leads to chilling suspense amid hot tropical nights.
THE SLIGHTLY ALTERED HISTORY OF CASCADIA is a fantasy in which a spirit must figure out how the gods screwed up in the creation of humans and fix it. This is a funny quest, a fantasy for grown ups.
As long as you keep liking my stories, I'll keep telling them. Thanks for stopping by. Linda
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