FICTION
Kathryn Lynn Davis
Also known as: Davis Kathryn Lynn
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.
Most acclaimed
Child Of Awe
1990
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.
All We Hold Dear
1995
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....
Sing to me of dreams
1990
'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...