Coming in October
If you like epic, raw, character-driven historical fiction like novels by Paulette Jiles (News of the World), and Elizabeth Gonzalez James (The Bullet Swallower), you will love Lisa’s next novel:
EL PASO-Felina’s Story
You have heard the song, but never known the truth of the whole story. Felina's story.
Until now…
Sumptuous, tragic and stirring, this new take on an old tale transports readers across a bold landscape of sensuousness and violence, human fragility and resilience.
A re-telling that turns the tables on the classic western ballad to reveal the heart-breaking life of a lost girl, her fight for survival and hope for love, and the man determined to possess her.
Told through the eyes of Rosa, the famed cantina owner, and the dancing enchantress herself, Felina's story is the unsung ballad of the women who took on the tough task of taming the West in their own way. Finding hard-won and ill-formed freedom in brothel work, they were the first women to bring a semblance of tenderness to the harshness of the time and terrain that was old El Paso.
A deeply stirring, literary exploration of vulnerability and survival, this literary novel of feminist Western fiction strips away the romance of the frontier to deliver a heartbreakingly real portrait of female resilience in the West.
Complimentary Novella
The prequel to Medicine Horse, this novella was written as a doorway into the world of that novel – a quieter glimpse of what came before the larger story unfolds.