Against this violent background, the story of Harry Talvace, master mason, unfolds.

    19-year-old Louisa Tether runs away from her family the day before her sister’s wedding.Three years later, after the searching has died down, she decides to respond to her mother’s annual plea, and return home.

    

    His mother, Rita, is a sexy, gorgeous star - but a little nuts. His house is a palace - but lonely as hell. Ben, his mother's latest lover, fulfills Josh's longing for a father, gives him a chance he desperately needs to become his own person and to escape the tawdry temptations of Tinsel Town...until suddenly Ben is dead, Rita is under suspicion of murder, and Josh, if he is to become his own man, must discover the truth.

    Also known as the Yellowstone Earthquake, the disaster caused massive flooding and the worst landslide in the history of the Northwestern United States. In The Night the Mountain Fell author Edmund Christopherson gives us a page-turning, journalistic-style account of how the deadliest earthquake in Montana's history ultimately claimed the lives of twenty-eight people.

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