Bøger af Faye Westlake Newman

When Alexis Bishop is called home by her dying father, she is completely unprepared for the ties that bind her to her childhood home in the Oregon High Desert. Arriving there, she steps into her father's shoes, caring for his law firm, his 3,000 acre cattle ranch, and his health. She immediately entrusts his health to her grandfather, Chases Bear, a medicine man for the three tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation north of the ranch. Taking part in his healing ceremonies and using his practices on Chases Bear himself, Alexis comes to understand the reason for her long-time yearning to learn the Old Ways, as well as the moodiness her grandfather describes as "Divine discontent." The desire fills her once again, despite extreme sacrifices that may be required. Alexis is equally unprepared for revival of a past love, a mystery involving forged artifacts, and the danger, not only to her comfortable future, but even to her life. As she works with her grandfather, Chases Bear, Alexis wrestles with myriad decisions for her life: should she go back to Washington, DC, to her legal work there and the boyfriend who is unaware of her Indian heritage? Take the lucrative offer of a full partnership in the most prestigious law firm in Oregon, bringing with her a multi-national client worth millions in legal fees? Raised in privilege and comfort, what is the source of her "divine discontent?" Is it the life of sacrifice and service to her mother's People that her grandfather represents? Her first love, left behind when she moved east to go to school or the one who has chased her across country to bring her back to D.C.?

The Shaman's Apprentice is the second in a series of a planned three volumes. Alexis Bishop, daughter of a prominent attorney and well-educated lawyer herself, is also the granddaughterdaughter of a Native American Medicine man. A new client, Rebecca Martinez, is beaten and dumped on the grounds of a school, in possession of enough cocaine to constitute intent to sell. The penalty will take twenty years of her young life. In addition, Rebecca is depressed; her mother is missing, and her father is dead. She is burdened by more trouble than any 19-year-old girl can handle. Saving Rebecca will clearly take all their talents, including those Alexis has learned from her grandfather, and even grandfather, himself, because wellness requires good health of mind, body, and spirit as well as in legal matters. As if all that were not enough, the team will have to fight off an attack by a Colombian drug cartel while they to save Rebecca!

Quinn Summer is a runaway wife hiding from a homicidal spouse, refusing to go into the Witness Protection program. Instead, she returns to Oregon, where she grew up and knows her way around. With unlimited resources, her racketeering husband will not stop until he finds her and prevents her testifying in his trial for murder.By going "off the grid," taking a new identity, and moving deep inside a northwestern conifer forest, she hopes to elude him until after the trial. Living in a miniature community in which nearly everyone has a secret provides challenges of its own, not least of which is the fact that the place is inaccessible except by boat. Everything, however simple, has its own special difficulties, even getting groceries. When her godfather mails(!) a beloved, well-trained police dog to her, and she meets a few of the neighbors, things appear to fall into place. She is not prepared for the suspicious reactions when she asks the wrong questions, or the presence on the island of a long-standing enemy she had never expected to see again, or for the mysterious man who seems attached to her side, or for the terrorist who is wanted by every law enforcement agency in the nation. She thinks she is prepared for the murderous husband to come calling, but that doesn't prevent her being caught off guard. Still, it appears that her greatest danger comes when she returns to Albuquerque to testify and puts her closest friends in danger.