The Rose Legacy is book one of the Diamond of the Rockies series by Kristen Heitzmann. It is set in Crystal, Colorado, a small mining town. It is small and rough. Carina DiGratia has left her home in California to move to Crystal where she has purchased a house and hopes to find a job. Her wa...
They Hoped Their Return Would Offer the Chance for Love to Grow Carina DiGratia Shephard longs to leave behind the painful memories represented by the town of Crystal, Colorado, and start anew in the California vineyards of her youth. With Quillan bent on proving his devotion, Carina dares to o...
I have to admit that I only started this book because my husband had read it first and knew I would like it. So to please him, I read it. And I read the whole thing in about 4 hours straight without moving. I've never cared enough to write a review for a book but this one touched me. I cried almo...
Sweet Boundless is book two of the Diamond of the Rockies series by Kristen Heitzmann. It is a delightful sequel to The Rose Legacy. Like the first book, it keeps you on your toes. The fight for Crystal has been fought. The men in charge of trying to take over have been hanged. Beck and the...
Running from terrors both recent and remembered, Noelle flees her New York mansion for the Rocky Mountains, seeking a place to hide from the men who betrayed her. Her sanctuary is a horse ranch, where she discovers solace in the breathtaking scenery she paints. But as the attentions of two brothe...
Lance Michelli had traveled to his grandmother Antonia's old villa in Sonoma to find the truth behind the secrets of her past. There he met Rese Barrett, the woman who now owns the villa and hides secrets of her own. Now Lance has returned to his grandmother with both Rese and the answers he has ...
A review from my old blog...I fell in love with the characters in Heitzmann's two historical fiction series but I had a hard time connecting with the two main characters in this book. Most likely this was just something in my head because at the beginning I had the distinct feeling that I'd alrea...
How glad my hand was not the one by which he now lies dead. —Quillan AT GRANGER STATION, Quillan took leave of Carina and followed the Wells Fargo agent off the train to make a report. Carina and the others who had witnessed the incident would be questioned and shown posters, but railroad officia...
IT IS EVEN A VAPOUR, THAT APPEARETH FOR A LITTLE TIME, AND THEN VANISHETH AWAY. James 4:14 KJV CAL STEPPED GINGERLY TOWARD THE HOUSE, careful not to stumble or trip. A sound caught him up short, and he tensed. He was pretty worthless with his right arm out of commission, but he wouldn’t be taken ...
Tessa had no trouble avoiding him, since Bair was able to tell her what she needed to know, where to find things, and how to get places. From what she’d observed, Smith’s leadership style was organized and competent, and he didn’t shirk his own workload. His natural exuberance had matured into an...
Papa keeps looking for two more inches. The breakfast entrées Lance created the next morning looked great as Rese captured them for the Web site. Crepes, almond focaccia, and frittata di carciofi—artichoke omelets he served earlier—and, of course, the lasagna. She took the close-ups, then said, “...
Her early morning trek and a day at the store had brought clarity. Entering the house through the mud room, she looked for and found Piper in the kitchen, sucking honey off her finger. “Miles would be horrified.”Piper giggled, turned to the sink, and scrubbed. “What he doesn’t know can’t hurt him...
With flowers in her gray-streaked black hair, Joni paced the ladies' room down the hall from the court in a broomstick skirt and camisole top. "It's a mistake. We're making a mistake. We'll kill each other." "It's not a mistake." Rese pushed open the door for Joni to exit. Out in the hall, Brad s...
It came to him—like cancer.The baby-sitter, cell phone still caught between rapidly texting thumbs, had finally realized the giant, red plastic car-shaped shopping cart held animal crackers, milk, Oreos, and a squeezable bath toy, but no dimpled, drooling tot. Panic catching her like an electric ...