Author
Nancy Pickard
2 award wins, 5 nominations across 2 books.
The Scent of Rain and Lightning
Published 2010-05-04 · 328 pages
Twenty-three years ago, when she was only three years old, Jody Linder¡s father was murdered. Her mother had vanished, presumed dead. Local trouble-maker Billy Crosby confessed to the murder and was locked up, leaving his wife and son to face the consequences in the small Kansas town of Rose. But his son Collin, now a lawyer, has successfully petitioned for a retrial, which means that - for now - Billy is back in town. Jody is horrified; the man who tore her family apart is living just a few streets away.
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The Virgin of Small Plains
Published 2006-04-18 · 368 pages
Small Plains, Kansas, January 23, 1987: In the midst of a deadly blizzard, eighteen-year-old Rex Shellenberger scours his father's pasture, looking for helpless newborn calves. Then he makes a shocking discovery: the naked, frozen body of a teenage girl, her skin as white as the snow around her. Even dead, she is the most beautiful girl he's ever seen. It is a moment that will forever change his life and the lives of everyone around him. The mysterious dead girl--the "Virgin of Small Plains"--inspires local reverence.
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