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    Solomon Spring
    Solomon Spring
    Solomon Spring
    Audiobook8 hours

    Solomon Spring

    Written by Michelle Black

    Narrated by Kris Faulkner

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    A child custody battle turns deadly on a windswept winter prairie in 1878. A man begins a quixotic search for lost love in an effort to mend his shattered life. A sacred Native American shrine is about to be defiled, but not if one determined woman can stop it. These three seemingly unrelated stories collide at the Solomon Springs natural wonder held sacred for centuries because of its legendary healing properties. Murder shatters the spiritual calm that is Solomon Spring. Seeking solace from the turbulent life she has led, Eden Murdoch returns to the Solomon Spring. The tranquility of this timeless place will soon be corrupted by a local businessman who plans to exploit the sacred waters of the Spring. Eden's earnest fight to prevent this sacrilege is interrupted by her own past. Brad Randall, her onetime lover, arrives with the astounding news that the infant son Eden lost fourteen years before has been located and is living nearby. The joy of her reunion with her son and with Brad, is clouded by the reappearance of her longestranged husband, Lawrence Murdoch, who seeks sole custody of the boy and of the prosperous ranch the boy will inherit from his adoptive father. The warring couple engage in a vicious battle, both legal and emotional, with an unexpectedly deadly outcome.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks in Motion
    Release dateJul 15, 2013
    ISBN9781614534181
    Solomon Spring
    Author

    Michelle Black

    Michelle Black divides her time between Kansas City and a log home in the mountains of Colorado.  She was born in Kansas and studied anthropology in college.  She created her first “book,” an illustrated survey of ancient Olmec art, as her undergraduate thesis. She went on to law school and graduated with honors. In 1993, she moved to Colorado and began to focus on her fiction writing.  For three years, she owned a bookstore in Frisco, Colorado, a small town nestled high in the Colorado Rockies at 9,000 feet, where she resided with her husband and two sons. In September 2003, Tom Doherty Associates published her novel of historical suspense, The Second Glass of Absinthe, under the Forge imprint.  Set in 1880 Leadville, Colorado, the story unfolds against the backdrop of the town's first labor strike.  The shocking murder of the heiress owning Leadville's wealthiest mine unleashes all sorts of intrigue and scandal.  The title is taken from a quote by Oscar Wilde (who once visited Leadville but does not make an appearance in the novel). The story touches on many facets of Leadville life including the Victorian obsession with the occult. Solomon Spring, Absinthe's predecessor, was published in 2002, and was released in paperback in 2003. Though primarily an intriguing mystery novel, the story tackles many social issues enmeshed in the commercial exploitation of a sacred Native American shrine which actually existed on the Kansas prairie and was thought to have miraculous healing properties by white men and Plains Indians alike. Her previous historical novel, An Uncommon Enemy, a story set during the early years of the Plains Indian Wars, was also published by Forge in the fall of 2001.  The book was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award given by the Center for the Book. While researching that novel, she began to study the Cheyenne language and became involved in the movement to save our Native American languages from extinction.  In 1999, her company, WinterSun Press, began to publish a Cheyenne language course called “Let's Talk Cheyenne” in a not-for-profit collaboration with a linguist on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana.  The course was so successful that in 2002, it outgrew her small press and she negotiated to have the project taken over by a national publisher. She is a former member of the board of directors of Women Writing the West, a national organization of writers and other professionals who are writing and promoting the Women's West.  Her leisure time activities include snowboarding, horseback riding (she prefers an Australian saddle), collecting Absinthe spoons, and building Victorian dollhouses that resemble the ones she describes in her novels.

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      What a great story, with an emphasis on the Victorian West!