Pamela Jekel

Ava Clayton is a pragmatic woman, fond of her lists. Known for her bracingly direct remarks, she is nonetheless speechless when her dead mother sits on the side of her bed one night and tells her when she is going to die—but not how.

From the first settlement on Roanoke Island and the birth of Virginia Dare through the revolution that created a new nation and the Civil War that tore it apart, Pamela Jekel weaves a vast, colorful tapestry, bursting with the tempestuous beauty of the land.

One hundred years ago, Rudyard Kipling travelled to India as a young journalist and wrote the fabulous stories of the Jungle Books about Mowgli, the jungle boy raised by a wolf pack, and his friends, Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the bear....

Natchez is a stunning saga by NY Times bestselling author, Pamela Jekel, the second in her Southern trilogy. Spanning four generations of proud, strong-willed women, Natchez tells the story of hardships of frontier life....

In River Without End, Jekel brings to life a wilderness swamp of mystery and magic, savagery and sanctuary, and the Seminole people of Osceola and the region of the Suwannee River....

Columbia is a rich, vivid canvas of heroes and scoundrels, of men and women and their dreams of land, gold, timber, salmon, and power--dreams that begin when a nomad hunter kills a mastodon....

The Last of the California Girls is a Sixties romp through Southern California and the story of one man's obsession with the quintessential California girl She is all blond, beautiful motion; tanned and lithe, she represents freedom, youth, and a playful sexuality that is at once seductive and...

Bayou is Pamela Jekel’s masterpiece of the deep Southern delta country, hailed as “Best Historic Fiction” by Library Journal, a New York Times bestseller, and a Waldenbooks bestseller. From the Cajun swamp cabins to the great river plantations of the Mississippi and the glittering night...

A century ago, the American Southwest was a region of savage natural beauty. There, the Navajo people worshipped the land, spinning folk tales into legends and prayers into songs. But besieged by US Army soldiers, the tribe was suddenly thrust into a battle that nearly destroyed its culture....

THE NEWCOMERS is a novel by Pamela Jekel, best-selling author of SEASTAR, BAYOU, COLUMBIA, NATCHEZ, DEEPWATER, RIVER WITHOUT END, SHE WHO HEARS THE SUN, and other historical sagas. THE NEWCOMERS tells the story of a global invasion and is Pamela Jekel's first novel of the future. When alien...

The Summer I Believed in God and Johnny B. Good by Pamela Jekel is the story of a woman searching for her father. Raised by her grandparents, Lacey Wickham was told that her mother had a nervous breakdown shortly after her birth and was institutionalized. Now at twenty-seven, a psychologist with...