Not My Father's House: A Novel of Old New Mexico

by Loretta Miles Tollefson

Overview

Suzanna hates everything about her New Mexico mountain home. The isolation. The short growing season. The critters after her corn. The long snow-bound winters in a dimly-lit cabin.

But she loves Gerald, who loves this valley.

So Suzanna does her unhappy best to adjust, even when the babies come, both of them in the middle of winter. Her postpartum depression, the cold, and the lack of sunlight push her to the edge.

But the Sangre de Cristo mountains contain a menace far more dangerous than Suzanna's internal struggles. The man Gerald killed in the mountains of the Gila two years ago isn't as dead as everyone thought.

And his lust for Suzanna may be even stronger than his desire for Gerald's blood.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780998349886
Publisher:	Palo Flechado Press
Publication date:	10/01/2019
Series:	Old New Mexico , #2
Pages:	334
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Loretta Miles Tollefson grew up in the American West in a log cabin built by her grandfather harvested from trees on the surrounding quarter-section. She lives in New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo mountains, where she researches the region's history and imagines what it would have been like to actually experience it.

Editorial Reviews

Tollefson handles suspense well through an ebb and flow of tension.. . .The setting authentically portrays the distinctive New Mexican culture of the 1820s, as Anglo traders filtered into the predominantly Mexican and Indian area. Suzanna personifies the cultural milieu, being herself a mix of New Englander and Native American, but with feelings and desires common to any race. This novel, one of a series, balances characterization and plot to deliver a story with both excitement and depth. - Loyd Uglow, Historical Novel Society

Historical fiction has almost as many flavors as there are time periods to write about. Not My Father's House, by Loretta Miles Tollefson is an historical novel with a western flavor that leaves the reader smacking their lips for more. A true frontier wilderness tale, Tollefson takes true events and places from the annals of the wild backwoods of old New Mexico territory and crafts a tale of the struggles and hardships of frontier life in the untamed mountain wilderness....A story of female strength and courage in a time when the lands were still wild. Not My Father's House is a finely crafted story in the western tradition. Kaye Lynne Booth, Writing To Be Read

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