Bøger af Lee Patton

When Ray O'Brien volunteers to raft the Grand Canyon with a research team, the last thing he expects is murder. After a few days on a river closed to the public, one of the volunteers is found struck dead on a secluded beach. Sixty wilderness miles from contact with other people, the group must carry on in total isolation, sure someone committed murder and may kill again.Despite the terrible timing, Ray falls for Duke, the group's handsome ranger, who seems to return the attraction. Ray and Duke join forces with Jenny Bridger, the group leader, to solve the mystery. Jenny must act with confidence and decisiveness but meets puzzling resistance from the volunteers. Ensuring safe passage for all will mean overcoming the group's misgivings and slaying Jenny's own demons, but her compassion for the victim's widow may lead them all astray.The age-old Canyon becomes more and more ominous as the group fights to survive alone in nature and uncover a murderer among them.Fresh Grave in Grand Canyon contains a racial slur by a minor character.

For 21-year-old gay virgin Gabe Rafferty, the first decade of adulthood is unpredictable and intense.Flat broke upon college graduation, Gabe navigates the passage from menial work to globetrotting corporate drudge, then strives for a real chance at professional fulfillment. His journey exploring his sexuality-from inhibited innocence, to first-love crises, to random hookups-doesn''t seem to lead to the more sensual, committed relationships he wants. Then he meets Marty, an African American art student, and Gabe must face his white working-class background and racist father for a chance at true love.Throughout, he traverses the joys and hazards of loving a headstrong cast of friends, including a lesbian couple, and Candy, a straight female friend whose life intersects with Gabe''s in unexpected ways.For Gabe, what happens after coming of age and coming out is a scramble to survive first journeys into sex, love, and livelihood.

Determined to record every summer day, young history teacher Luke Devlin starts school vacation imagining he'll describe backcountry adventures in the Rockies and sun-splashed days home in Denver. But all too soon the season veers into crisis, when his older brother faces life-threatening illness and Luke becomes entangled in a love affair that's as fast- moving and possibly as fatal as his brother's diagnosis.As Luke manages the household for his absent parents and struggles with the constant pressure of his unfinished master's deadline, his fling with a Wyoming rancher grows serious just as his brother's crisis overwhelms him. Luke's love of his native ground and his search for romance collide with the hard realities of mortality and loss during an unexpected summer.