FICTION · WESTERN ROMANCE
Patricia Pellicane
Patricia Pellicane lives on Long Island in New York with her husband and family. She enjoys reading, travelling in her motor home and especially enjoys her grandchildren. "Too bad we can't have grandchildren first. They're a kick." Most of all she loves to write.“Life’s tough we all need a bit of fantasy now and then. For myself, I love a happy ending.” Resplendence Publishing is releasing my 43rd book in July. Excellent cover this time. My editor said I hit the jackpot. I think she's right. So you might think 43 books, she's got to be rich. My relatives think it, my kids think it, even I think it. The only problem is, we're all thinking wrong. Somehow the money-fairy totally missed my house. Fact is someone made a mistake because the money-fairy thinks she's a tooth-fairy and leaves me only a dollar here and there. Come on, will ya? I'm going to be very upset if I grow rich and become a house-hold name after I'm dead.
In my end is my beginning. . . . That's a quotation I've often heard people say.
— from Endless Night
Most acclaimed
Endless Night
Gipsy's Acre is a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea and, for Michael Rogers, it stirs a child-like fantasy. He wants to settle there, amongst the dark fir trees. Yet, as he leaves the village, a shadow of menace hangs over the land. This is the place where accidents happen. Perhaps Michael should have heeded the locals' warnings: "There's no luck for them as meddles with Gipsy's Acre."The novel was adapted for the screen and released in 1972. It starred Hayley Mills and Britt Eklund. Agatha Christie was unhappy with the attempt to enliven the plot by infusing the movie with sexual scenes. Both Christie and her husband claim in their respective autobiographies that the novel is among their favorites due to the "twisted" character who had a chance of turning good but instead chose evil. The book is dedicated to the author's relative Nora Prichard, who first told the author about a field called 'Gipsy's Acres' on the Welsh moors. The title of the novel is drawn from the Romantic poet William Blake's Auguries of Innocence, of which a key line is 'Some are born to Endless Night'.
This Wild Heart
1990
SHE COULDN'T TRUST HIM Beautiful Morgan Wainwright was eager to trade her New York townhouse for the rangelands of Nevada, where she'd inherited a half-share in the Red Rock Ranch. But then Morgan met her darkly handsome partner, the half-Indian, all-infuriating Joseph Youngblood. When he ordered her off "his" land, her blue-eyes blazed with rage, but when he tried to scare her away with his bold caresses, her blood boiled with a different brand of heat. Youngblood teased her with whispers of what he would do with his searching hands and warm lips, and when he made good on his shameful promises, Morgan was willing to surrender more than a parcel of land! HE WOULDN'T LET HER GO Joseph Youngblood had worked like a dog to turn the Red Rock Ranch into a growing concern, and he'd be damned if some well-heeled looker could sashay in and steal it out from under him. He planned to send Morgan packing with his rude talk and audacious advances, but after he's tasted her honey-sweet lips and explored her luscious curves, he vowed to seduce her into staying in his loving embrace -- where she belonged.
Only For Love
1998
Felicity Dryson is loyal to George Washington's cause, acting as both his courier and, without his knowledge, nurse to his injured soldiers. But she cannot deny her passion for rakishly handsome British physician Jared Walker, who is also her sworn enemy.