AURORA FULLER grows up on a fifty-acre orange grove—an enchanted placed to play and hide. Dark questions about her surgeon father haunt her. How did he graduate from Stanford Medical School without finishing high school? What is he hiding? What was he doing in the Navy in China as a fifteen year-old? (A fictionalized memoir.)
IN 1860 A 12 YEAR-OLD boy runs away from home to hide in Ice House Canyon deep in the San Bernardino mountains with his beloved pony, Stage. The cruel stagecoach driver who nearly whipped his mother to death is back in town asking questions about what happened to the colt. (A chapter book for middle grade readers based on a true story.)