Author Description

Imagine opening a long-forgotten trunk to find diaries written by your foremothers. Four generations of thoughts, heartaches, challenges and triumphs. What lessons did they write inside the yellowed pages? What lessons could they gift you now? THE LEGACY OF CLAIRE DELANY – Book Four of the Silver Cross Ranch Legacy As Claire cleans yet another stall, she envies the hippie chicks who stop by the ranch hoping for a handout. Envies their freedom and wanderlust. Her ticket out is college in Denver and she’d make sure it is only one-way. With classes on her resume, she could get a banking job and stay gone for good. However, one moment changes the entire course of a lifetime. One moment—California, spring break and a French artist. She and Henri tried. Tried to make it work by “doing the right thing”, and it did for a while. Baby Marina and her joyful heart. And then sweet Michael. Yet another moment sends her spinning off course and into the unknown. And then another, followed by a never-ending search to fill the emptiness with food, money, and a solid rock of a man, but rocks refuse to bend. Claire returns to the Silver Cross desperate for a foundation and finds it was there all along. Fighting breast cancer, she is grounded in the very soil she once rejected—land and a truth as enduring as the mountains surrounding the Silver Cross like a strong fortress. A lesson taught by the true creator and keeper of the Silver Cross Legacy. The Silver Cross Ranch Legacy weaves the lessons of history into the lives of four mothers and daughters who fight the odds, and sometimes each other, to defend their way of life. With stubborn tenacity and hard-won faith, the women learn the beauty in their differences, the power of forgiveness, and create hope for the future with the reassurance that each step taken during life’s sometimes rugged journey leads to a bright coming home. A Lady Rancher is a rare breed. Born into the world with a legacy deep in her m