Paint the Wind - Softcover

Called The Gone With the Wind of the West, this is an epic saga of love, lust, courage and adventure set against the rough and tumble backdrop of the Old West. It’s the story of an unforgettable woman named Fancy, and the three strong men who risk everything to possess her.To survive, feisty, tempestuous Fancy Deverell must learn what it takes for a woman to climb from poverty to fame and fortune in a universe that belongs to the ruthless and the male. Meet men and women as colorful and varied as the thousands who journeyed West fill these pages with life. The bodacious madam and the gunfighter who loves her... the cunning Chinese wise man who knows the cure for Opium addiction... the gypsy who has mastered the Forbidden Arts... and the dwarf whose small stature is trumped by his monumental courage.Ride the wild desert with Geronimo, battle the Rockies for the Motherlode of Silver, taste the lavish Art Scene of Paris at the turn of the 20th century, see the heights and depths the human spirit can reach as you go on a roller coaster ride with Fancy, a woman ahead of her time, who wants it all, and will get it too, if she doesn’t let her heart and the three charismatic men who want to own her, get in the way. Against this huge, vividly rendered, multi-charactered canvas, three resolute men do battle for the woman called Fancy in a novel that for scope and grandeur rivals the classic epics of our time. “An unforgettable tale of love, ambition and adventure.” The Literary Guild“A big, sprawling novel... one of those books you can dive into and lose yourself for hours..” The Desert Sun