The Wind Comes SweepingMarik Youngblood left her Oklahoma hometownand the child she gave up for adoptionintent on becoming an artist instead of a rancher. Her fathers death brings her back to a failing cattle operation, a pile of debt and a haunting need to find the child she left behind. But when the bones of an infant are unearthed on her familys ranch, Marik fears shes learned her daughters fate. Burt and Lena Gurdman own the property that neighbors Killdeer Ridge Ranch.

Honour Book -- 2015 Children's Book Council of Australia Awards

'saw more violence and death than any other woman in Australia's history'

redemption and discovery

forge new bonds

Madden insists he’s innocent

Unsparing in its honesty and insight

and how they saved each other and now travel America together

The thrilling conclusion to the story that began in the acclaimed The New Policeman

Wyatt realizes the boy he once loved may still exist

self-consciousness

Scared for her life and that of her baby's she ran away from home carrying only a plastic bag stuffed with her few possessions

anonymous creator of a popular webcomic called Monstrous Sea