My father
and I published our books, books that are very different in subject matter, his
book “The Stone Horse & Droshki is a historical novel about the Korean and
Afghanistan War, highly researched and reads like a Tom Clancy novel.
My book
“The Eve Chronicles” is a contemporary fictionalized memoir about when I first
moved to Oregon and lived in the Wallowa Mountain working as a timber cruiser
for the Forest Service.
“The
Stone Horse & Droshki” by Ken De Villers is also a story of enduring
love. It’s an adventure historical novel, the memoirs of Colonel General
Yuri Danilov, the son of an American Sioux Indian and a Ukrainian
Mother. Master spy for the Soviet KGB. Top Gun fighter pilot in the
Korean, Vietnam and the Soviet Afghanistan wars. Privy to the internal
workings of the Soviet Union’s Politburo. Also a story of love and
devotion between Yuri and the beautiful Japanese-Russian Eiko Haraoka.
My book
is called “The Eve Chronicles” by Diane DeVillers:
The
paperback book is three novellas, inspired by the author’s own journals about
her relationships, life, and work in the forests of Oregon, comprise The Eve
Chronicles.
The
first book is called “From the Waters of Coyote Springs”: Eve searches for
meaning to her life while working in the forest of the Wallowa Mountains in
Oregon. Living in her tent she spends the day doing timber inventory for the
Forest Service. Five other mismatched foresters live in the camp with her.
Felix
and Eve: Felix hires Eve; he’s a cantankerous elderly man who needs
round-the-clock nursing care. She’s a live-in-the-moment type of person. Once
Felix accepts her, he tells of his relationship with the notorious gangster, Al
Capone in Chicago during the 1930s.
The
Arrangement: Each year under a special arrangement Eve spends the summer on
Catalina Island with Sid, a retired college Professor and Eve’s former lover,
who has a debilitating type of Multiple Sclerosis. An irony is that the author,
having left the forests to work with people as a caregiver, was later diagnosed
with Multiple Sclerosis. This afforded her the opportunity to retire early and
focus on writing.
The three
eBooks are available at Smashwords.com or Amazon.com or any other site that
sells eBooks. The paperback book is available on Amazon and books stores that
can access the Ingram Catalog.
