‘A DEAD RED OLEANDER’ When a late in the season emergency forces Lalla Bains to accept a greenhorn ag pilot for her dad’s cropdusting business, she sighs in relief . After all, he comes highly recommended, his physical is spotless, and...
With Marshall Balthrop now sleeping downstairs on the couch, not to mention his new security system attached to TV cameras around our houses, I’d slept just fine. . . Of course, Jim would follow us and we’d have to run the gauntlet of...
PROLOGUE The world is flat. I know it is, because for the last five hours the view has been exactly the same. Only the sun has done any traveling, working its long shadows through straight lines of harvested cotton. A few crows shop the furrowed...