Böcker av Josephine Ashton

In 1933, a Bauhaus'artist's secretive actions in Europe on the edge of World War II. In the late 1990ies, two transatlantic lovers, Erin Kelly, a Taos, New Mexico based photographer, and François Rosen, a creative, Paris businessman, get caught up in a tangled web of Nazi confiscated art. Their lives and that of many associates are in danger as they slowly begin to discover they are being pursued by someone who will not only murder thousands to get hold of Francois' father's art, but who may also be the leader of a ruthless, neo-Nazi resurgence. Code of the Running Cross, An Erin Kelly Mystery, is also a complex story of men and women ensnared by actions and beliefs, codes of malignant greed and evil, and selfless good inherited from their WWII era forefathers.

Petey Punkin is a shy, rather lonely, young punpkin, though cruious about his Sunflower and Punkin Patch. He finds his curiosity partially satisfied, and is a bit less lonely, when, on Hallowee Eve, the Scarecrow in the punkin patch, loses his head in a blustery wind, and a friendly hired hand places Petey on top of Scarecrow's shoulders.But the blustery wind is not finished, and soon, both Petey and Scarecrow are blown right out of the Sun-flower and Punkin Patch, ending up as Petey-Scritchy in the neglected cornfiedl below the B & BRRR Haunted Hotel.Suddenly confronted by a thing-witch-magician they are whisked inside the Haunted Hotel, where their lives, at the stroke of midnight, if Clock chimes on time, and Time and Mrs. Mary Moonlight and the Farmer Beans, Petey and Scritchie all old the same wish feeling-thoughts at the same time, may drastically change.While children will enjoy this story, it is also a coming of age, and adults may enjoy the magical transformations that happen in Petey-Scritchie's life.

Sheriff Robert Gallegos, tall, handsome, quiet, friendly, Native American/Hispanic, an ex WWII Marine is determined that the encroaching Juarez, Mexico drug cartel that will stop at nothing to take over his Southwestern New Mexico, Aragón Valley - will not, on his watch, succeed. But as intimidation, rape and murder stalk the rural community, the reality of the threat, this summer of 1965, grows ominously closer. Gallegos has no deputies, an office next to his two person jail cell, his apartment above that, and as many friends as enemies. He encounters both over coffee at Connelly's Cafe, a Lucky Lager at Sam's Tavern's Friday night dances, or sharing a "sixties" smoke at Tim Sanderson's Thursday night poker game. Tim boards and "gentles" horses, Phillipe Montez runs his old father's Red Stones Vineyards and Winery. Together, the three, known around town as the 'musketeers;' share a bloody secret known by not even la Senora Bella Aragón or her beautiful granddaughter Lara, both of whom rule the town founded by their Spanish ancestors. A man's man, the Sheriff's real companion is Old Lady Sara Tree-Root Tampoya, the part-Hopi Medicine Woman who communicates with Grey Lady Between the Mountains, bringer of passages of life and of death, as he struggles to stay centered in the present and decipher the past, to understand who he really is. The wild red-dust wind gallops day and night through the streets of this fictional, S.E New Mexico Aragón Valley county and town. Situated near the Rio Grande, somewhere between Las Cruces and the borders of El Paso, Texas and Ciudad de Juárez, Mexico, everyone has a back-story, memories and secrets. Santa Feans, Easterners, Denver and West Coast hippies, and lovers are welcomed, Juarez drug cartel goons are not, and all soon learn to ask no personal questions. A "Cast of Characters", research information, and Spanish language words and conversations translations are provided following the story.