"From a distance, the Flint Hills of Kansas appear an immense and barren landscape. A closer look, however, shows them to be a place of wild natural beauty--a perfect backdrop to the story of an encounter between a young woman bound to a place by ghosts and an exceptional man who settles there for a short while. Sarah Bryden, a talented painter with her dreams on hold, waits on tables by day and spends her nights capturing the subtle beauty of the...

Veterinarian Rachel Small Deer dreams of bringing her skill and knowledge to help the people of the reservation where she had grown up. Denver painter Nick Cassavettes has to come to Los Cincos, New Mexico to reclaim the art he has lost through the guilt he feels over the death of his younger brother. Rachel and Nick have nothing in common. She wants to preserve Los Cincos and resents the artists and tourists who would turn the town into a mass of...

Local architect Shayne Reynolds is an art collector, but when it comes to Carrie Lockett he's as interested in the artist as he is in her California landscapes and stunning portraits. The talented and reclusive Carrie, however, rejects his overtures, but she won't tell him why-- even though he knows she returns his feelings.

"Augusta and Owen are living a quiet country life of companionship and artistic creation--she a painter, he a writer--until Alison, a beautiful British woman, moves in to the previously unoccupied cottage next door. As Gus and Owen's life becomes intertwined with Alison's, past betrayals, losses, and new desires come to a head. A remarkably insightful, gorgeously written, unforgettable portrait of a marriage, of mature love, of desire, of regret,...