ISBN: 978-1-68313-002-4
252 pages
$15.97 softcover
$4.97 in Kindle
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The Canyon House
by Janice Gilbertson
Even the most beautiful summer
can turn dark and cold in a moment.
For nine-year-old tomboy Poppy, moving to the wilderness of the canyon and the ramshackle
house was a dream come true. Nature was her playground—she could let her imagination run
wild. Poppy thought starting a new school in the fall would be the worst thing to ever happen.
But as the temperature dropped and the dark clouds rolled over the canyon walls, she couldn't
have foreseen the secrets that should have been shared or the life-and-death events that would
unfold—and how they would dramatically change her life forever.
Will Poppy be strong enough to endure The Canyon House?
Praise for The Canyon House
"The characters in Janice Gilbertson's The Canyon House become a part of our lives. And
the canyon walls, the oaks along the creek bed, the dust and then the rain—we can see, hear and
smell them. This story will hook you early on, the tension like a taut strand of barbed wire. And then,
the quintessential Gilbertson surprise."
~ Ken Rodgers, award-winning author, teacher, and filmmaker
"Gilbertson's artful writing almost reaches out from the page and grabs her readers' attention like a
dust-devil twisting across a sun-baked New Mexico plain. In her first novel, Summer of '58, the
author loads her readers into a beat up Oldsmobile, and off they go, riding along on a rambling journey
down the rodeo trail of the 1950s with pre-teen Angela and Lanny Ray, her 'much too young to feel this
damned old' bronc-ridin' father.
"The Canyon House takes us down a different, yet somehow familiar, dirt road as it wends its way
up a dry and dusty canyon to finally alight upon another lonely young girl dealing with the troubled
dynamics within her family. Meanwhile, she discovers beloved friends camping 'down-creek' from her
isolated home with their angry and possibly abusive father. Janice Gilbertson's stories always include
the rugged, authentic grit of the droughty, cattle-ranching West where she has always lived. She draws
upon that experience to weave tales that find permanent homes within our psyches and memory. She is my
favorite contemporary author and I can't wait for whatever comes next from her pensive heart."
~ Virginia Bennett, author of In the Company of Horses and Cowgirl Poetry: 100 Years of Ridin' and Rhymin'
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"Gilbertson continues to craft works with engaging characters and situations. Readers effortlessly step
into her richly created worlds and stories linger long after the book is closed. The Canyon House,
like Summer of '58, will be enjoyed by all readers who appreciate a story well told."
~ Margo Metegrano, director of the Center for Cowboy and Western Poetry
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