Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weights whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.

There are people in Edgewater, Oregon, who think Rachel Gaston got away with murder twenty years ago. Rachel still has no idea how a foolish teenaged game turned deadly, or who replaced the soft pellet air gun she thought she was using with a real weapon. When a figure leapt out at her from the darkness of the old fish processing plant, she fired without thinking. Too late, she recognized her half-brother, Luke, and saw the blood blooming around his...

"In Phillip Margolin's Murder at Black Oaks, Attorney Robin Lockwood finds herself at an isolated retreat in the Oregon mountains, one with a tragic past and a legendary curse, and surrounded by many suspects and confronted with an impossible crime. Defense Attorney Robin Lockwood is summoned by retired District Attorney Francis Hardy to meet with him at Black Oaks, the manor he owns up in the Oregon mountains. The manor has an interesting history...

At the age of nineteen, Seth Sileski had everything. A superb athlete, handsome and popular, he was the pride of Thunder Point. Destined for greatness, he lost it all in a terrible accident that put an end to his professional football career when it had barely begun. Seth has come to terms with the turns his life has taken. Now he's been presented with an opportunity to return home and show his father and the people of Thunder Point he's become a...

"Twenty years ago after a long summer at Camp Horseshoe on the Oregon coast, two girl counselors went missing. Now human remains are discovered in a cave on the former camp. Seven former female counselors return to tell their story, but shortly after their arrival, they each receive texts: YOU WILL PAY. Then, the murders begin"--

"After years of schooling on the East Coast, Constance Browning returns to Oregon and the reservation where she grew up with her missionary parents. She is accompanied by Thomas Lowell, her best friend and colleague, and together they embark on a project to catalogue the native peoples of Oregon for the Bureau of American Ethnology. But Connie and Tom have another purpose--to prove her parents are not involved in a secret conspiracy to goad the oppressed...

Nestled on the Oregon coast, Thunder Point is a small town of rocky beaches and rugged charm. Locals love the land's unspoiled beauty. Developers see it as a potential gold mine. When newcomer Hank Cooper learns he's been left beachfront property, he finds himself with a community's destiny in his hands. Cooper has never been a man to settle in one place, but he finds himself getting involved with the town. And with Sarah Dupre, a woman as complicated...

A chilling novel that explores a family's legacy of lies and murder "with a final, dizzying twist" from the #1 New York Times bestselling author (Publishers Weekly).

Even a man as powerful as Dutch Holland can't keep a scandal buried forever. That's why he's summoned his children home to Oregon before announcing his run for governor. Sixteen years ago, his rival's son, Harley Taggert, drowned in the murky waters of...

Sierra's family runs a Christmas tree farm in Oregon -- it's a bucolic setting for a girl to grow up in, except that every year, they pack up and move to California to set up their Christmas tree lot for the season. So Sierra lives two lives: her life in Oregon and her life at Christmas. And leaving one always means missing the other. Until this particular Christmas, when Sierra meets Caleb, and one life eclipses the other. By reputation, Caleb is...

Discusses the effect of the effects of wildfire on an Oregon community.