Kathryn Lynn Davis
Description
Kathryn Lynn Davis has deep roots in Riverside, Calif. Indeed, she was born and raised in Riverside and she continues to live here with her photographer husband, Michael J. Elderman (who in addition to running his own gallery on Lemon Street, also works as a contract photographer for The City of Riverside). Kathryn has written eight novels, including At the Wind's Edge, Child of Awe, Sing to Me of Dreams, and The New York Times Bestseller, Too Deep for Tears. Her work has also appeared in the anthology, Mother: Famous Writers Celebrate Motherhood with a Treasury of Short Stories, Essays, and Poems. Some may write in the hopes of making their readers laugh, but I suspect Kathryn would rather make her readers cry. She has a deep and abiding love for words; for her characters who have it in their hearts to live honorably and truthfully, such that by the end you want to share in their lives; and for the wild, gorgeous country they inhabit.
Books
Somewhere lies the moon
In her earlier novels Too Deep for Tears and All We Hold Dear, Kathryn Lynn Davis introduced readers to the Rose women, a close-knit brood of Scottish women who tend their inner gardens like master botanists. Now in Somewhere Lies the Moon, Eva Crawford connects with her female ancestors through their diaries and heirlooms and leads readers through the complex evolution of these women's relationships. Matriarch Mairi Rose; the three half-sisters Ailsa, Genevra, and Lian; and the granddaughter Ena have an intense connection that pulls them together in times of duress. When young Ena begins to suffer foreboding nightmares, her female relatives sense her pain and rush from the far edges of the earth to help her. As Ena confronts the challenges of life, Mairi, Ailsa, Genevra, and Lian face their own battles and help inspire Ena with their successes. With the liberal use of flashbacks and dreams, Davis carefully develops the internal state of her characters' minds. While the book is sectioned into the stories of Lian, Genevra, and Ena, the last section is by far the most compelling, although the insertion of the modern plot of Eva Crawford's nuptial paranoia feels awkward. New readers will admire the complex tapestry of emotion that Davis weaves, and previous fans will enjoy the chance to watch these familiar characters surmount their latest struggles. --Nancy R.E. O'Brien
All We Hold Dear
Kathryn Lynn Davis returns to wild, idyllic Glen Affric, home to the memorable characters in "Too Deep for Tears," and draws us into a world of suspense and haunting emotion....During the spring of 1988, on a small Scottish island battered into stark beauty by the sea, eighteen-year-old Eva Crawford leaves her childhood home to unearth the truth about herself, her mother, and her family. In a spare Glasgow bedroom, Eva finds a worn, yellowed journal and a faded scrap of ribbon. She is soon spellbound by the story of her ancestors: Ailsa Rose Sinclair, who rejoiced in the paradise of Glen Affric...Ian Fraser, Ailsa's never-forgotten first love...Alanna Sinclair, Ailsa's daughter, who met the love of her life in the peace of Glen Affric. Each had to confront their own demons, old loyalties and new betrayals, as a devastating tragedy loomed.... One hundred years later, Eva Crawford must learn to forgive the mother she never knew, to move toward the future, and the man who wants to open her heart to the greatest treasure her family can offer....
Child Of Awe
Muriella Calder...a young Scots beauty with auburn hair and wondrous green eyes. Sole heir to castle and fabled fortune. Stolen from her family and betrothed against her will to the second son of a rival clan. John Campbell...a proud young warrior and hero on the bloody fields of valor. His courage has won him honors for the Campbell clan and made his name a legend—but his bloodlust dismays his stolen bride. Every corner of Muriella's new world seems locked in violent struggle, but none so fierce as that which rages in her heart. She anxiously awaits the sweet awakening of love's first passion—the tender touch and warm need of a gentle lover's lips, her proud heart's desire.
Sing to me of dreams
'There is a future I do not seek, but which will come to be, just the same...' With these words echoing in her heart, Saylah, born of a white father and Indian mother, set off on a journey that would take her through all the mysteries of the human heart. As a child she came to know the bounty of the earth and sea, the clear streams, and she guarded the secret wisdom of her close-knit Indian people. But when tragedy devastated her loved ones, Saylah was forced to leave her home and enter the world of the Ivys, an English-born family whose European traditions were as strange to her as her spirit world was to them. The Ivys had come to the lush, fertile Pacific Northwest in pursuit of a dream -- to build a paradise of prosperity and freedom. Until Saylah came to them, their dream had been denied. Julian Ivy had a dream of his own. An impatient young man in whom refinement and rage were intertwined, he was drawn to Saylah's healing power and disturbing beauty. Through heartbreak and joy, Julian and Saylah would discover the richness of love... but no one could resolve for her the conflicts of her heritage. Heeding the call of her destiny, she would finally make the most wrenching choice of all...
The Endless Sky
Following the highly acclaimed Too Deep for Tears and Somewhere Lies the Moon, Kathryn Lynn Davis continues her epic tale of drama and adventure, heartache, and triumph in this sweeping saga of a family's daring bid to forge an empire in the Badlands of the American West. Phillipe de Vallombrosa was lured to the Dakota Badlands by the same dream that seduced his infamous father -- a drive to succeed over the forces of nature in a feral land. He vows to stand defiant against the ruthless enemies determined to destroy him, even as ambition leads him into the treacherous territory of seduction, betrayal, and love.
At the Wind's Edge
French nobleman Antoine de Vallombrosa is lured to the Dakota Badlands by a fierce determination to buile an empire in a forbidding frontier of rolling hills and fiery sunsets. By his sie is his new wife, Medora, a New York heiress who shares his vision. But-
Too deep for tears
Charles Kittridge, a dashing English diplomat, has relished the pleasures of the world--and in his passionate far-flung wanderings, has left behind three remarkable daughters. But each girl has come to womanhood without knowing him, and his haunting absence has shaped each one's heart, life and dreams. Now Charles has but one final desire ... to bring together the daughters he has never known.