Land Of The Afternoon Sun

New York Times bestselling author Barbara Wood's latest novel follows a disinherited English baron and a young New York heiress who marry and move West to build an agricultural empire in Palm Springs in the 1920s when it was just a budding town on the edge of the Mojave Desert. It's a saga about ambition on both large and small scales and the rapidly modernizing world as the harsh, sun-drenched landscape transforms from a Native American haven to the playground of Hollywood's rich and famous. Land of the Afternoon Sun is also the story of a woman finding her own personality and strength in the West against a breathtaking desert landscape that changes constantly and shows its deadly side in poisonous snakes, flash floods and sand storms, with dramatic moments of forbidden romance, reversals, treachery, betrayal and, ultimately, triumphs.

This is the story of Duke Isami Fujiwara, his Native American wife WeNoNah and their son Ishe as they fight to save the empire from invasion and civil war. Explore the New World with the Conquistadors Miguel Ruiz and Herve Sanchez. They came in search of gold and found a different kind of treasure.

Conflict and commitment in the shadow of a city's downfall The raiding ships have come before, but this time it is different. This time the attackers are coming to stay. The great kings and their vassals collapse as the newcomers advance. Walk with refugees, migrants, and defenders of the land alike, as they struggle to create a different way of life beside the ruins of the old. Can alliance, commitment and love survive the turmoil? The process of change in the hill country that began in In a Milk and Honeyed Land is picking up pace now. This is a free sample download of the whole novel.

The darkest place in your photo Damn, the past is bothering you! The darkest place in your photo, your memory, You are at the mercy of the night Your aching pain is the burnt exile, The past disturbs you!

Rudra Narshimha, a boy whose father is killed for reasons unknown to him. He didn't know what his father did in the royal palace but he did know that he held enormous power in the King's court. To protect his family he runs away to a new city leaving their old life behind. Broken by the death of his father he carries on with his life in the new city. There he meets a man of who teaches him to make peace with his past but the man's own past is shrouded in mystery and no one has any concrete idea who the man is or where did he came from? In a turn of events he comes across a nomadic tribe, a tribe who are in search of their homeland for over a century. But no one has ever found it. On the tribe's next voyage he decides to accompany them for his own personal reasons. But soon he realizes going to the voyage was a mistake as he is met with a cruel reality. What he had run from follows him in his new home and his life is turned upside down. Great forces are at work here and he will find himself at the centre of the whirlpool of events. Each event will bring him closer to the truth but what is the truth that is up to him to find out? Who is the man and what is his past? Will he be able to help the tribe find what they are looking for? WIll he be able to find out why his father was killed or will he suffer a fate worse than his father?