Donna Mabry

Pillsbury Crossing Donna Mabry

Publisher Marketing: Emma is nine on the day they meet. Akecheta is twelve, and already the man of his house. He saves her life and tells her she belongs to him. As they grow up together on the frontier surrounding Manhattan, Kansas, he teaches her how to fish, hunt, and how to survive. She teaches him how to trust and how to share the burdens of his shameful past. When he graduates from high school, an aunt sends him to university in the other Manhattan, in New York. Emma continues her schooling at home. At first, Akecheta is dazzled by New YorkWhen a friend takes him to back-room poker games in the Bowery, he learns that Manhattan, New York, may be more deadly than the wilds of Kansas. Contributor Bio:  Mabry, Donna A Michigan native who studied writing in school, Donna first came to Vegas to make costumes and soon was weaving the stories she heard in the back of the girl's dressing room into her first novel. Now she is the author of the Alexandra Merritt Mysteries, which include The Last Two Aces in Las Vegas, The Las Vegas Desert Flower, The Las Vegas Special, Rough Ride in Vegas, M. I. A. Las Vegas, and Lost Luggage. Contributor Bio:  Hanfield, Susan Susan Hanfield is a classically trained actress of film, stage, commercials and print. In addition to her on-camera and stage work, Susan is an audiobook narrator and a 2014 & 2015 Audie Finalist for Ender s Game Alive, and Stars: Original Stories Based On The Songs Of Janis Ian.