“The Eve Chronicles” by Diane DeVillers (“From the Waters of Coyote Springs, Felix and Eve and The Arrangement in eBook) is about a self-reliant woman who moves to Oregon to work as a timber cruiser in the Wallowa Mountain of eastern Oregon. She’s a strong woman who lives by counterculture values and is a feminist. The men in the crew tease her relentlessly, and soon she becomes known as “Queen of the Comeback”.
Then she moves to Gold Beach on the coast and lives the summer with an elderly man who just had heart bypass surgery. He's grumpy at first but eventually, they develop a good relationship where he tells her his past when he worked for the notorious Al Capone.
Then, Eve moves to Eugene where she retires on Moon Mountain property where Vinnie, lives in a yurt in her back yard. Every year she leaves for the summer months to care for a former lover who has Multiple Sclerosis. Vinnie is in love with Eve but remains silent.
Her father also published his book “The Stone Horse & Droshki by Ken De Villers, which is about a man who is 1/2 Sioux Indian and 1/2 Russian, who joins the Airforce as a pilot and then decades later fakes his death to escape to Russia where he works his way up in the Russian Airforce. This due to his longing to learn about his homeland This book is similar to the Tom Clancy historical fiction.
