Book description
Solomon's Oak
is the story of three people who have suffered losses that changed
their lives forever. To make ends meet, Glory Solomon, a young widow, is
using the chapel her husband built on their central California farm,
under a 200-year-old white oak tree, as a place to hold unusual
weddings. Her first is for a bride and groom who want a pirate wedding.
Fourteen-year-old Juniper McGuire is the surviving member of a family
decimated by a local kidnapping. Juniper arrives on Glory's doorstep,
pierced, tattooed, angry and homeless. When Glory's husband Dan was
alive they took in foster children and raised them. But Juniper may be
more than she has the capacity to handle.
Joseph Vigil is a former Albuquerque police officer and crime lab
photographer who was shot during an assignment. Now disabled and in
constant pain, he came to California to photograph the giant trees of
the state.
Jo-Ann Mapson's deeply felt, wise and warm portrayal of broken souls
finding their way back to humanity shows how these three people - along
with a host of dogs, horses and goats -enter and transform each other's
lives. Â Mapson creates characters so real you could recognize them
coming down the road' Jo-Ann Mapson is the author of nine previous
novels, including Hank & Chloe
, Blue Rodeo
and the Los Angeles Times
bestsellers The Wilder Sisters
and Bad Girl Creek
. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her husband and their five
dogs. Visit her website at www.
joannmapson. com
.
