Turquoise, Rain Carrington
Turquoise, Rain Carrington
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Turquoise
A First Love Can Last a Lifetime

Author: Rain Carrington

Narrator: Declan Winters

Unabridged: 10 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: AAS Publishing

Published: 03/19/2024


Synopsis

Spanning fourteen years, this is an epic tale of true and undying love. This story will grab your heart, break it, and put it back together again….
In the mountains of New Mexico lives a group of boys who are inseparable. Playing together and sharing their lives, this group of six are like brothers.
That is until they grow up and one of them leaves the rez to fulfill his dream.
One of the boys misses him more than the others. From the moment they met as babies, Garcia Blacksnake has harbored a love for Angel Quintana that never faltered and grew with him as he grew. When Angel leaves New Mexico for New York to chase his dream of making fine jewelry, Garcia, heartbroken, occupies his time until the love of his life returns.
And Angel does return, coming back when tragedy strikes, weighed down with secrets he does not want his old friends to know. Secrets about the life he lives, as his dreams came true, turning to nightmares he cannot seem to escape.
Can childhood friends help save him from a sadistic man who holds Angel’s dream in his hands? Can Garcia’s love help him to trust himself and others again?
Find out in this tale of love that will pull you in and make you remember it for as long as Garcia has loved Angel….

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cleo on February 14, 2010

What a find! It is a rare book that makes me weep. Not in sorrow but in empathy. The life story of an amazing woman born in Santa Fe. She is a "forgotten" legend of the area. The author is a wonderful storyteller whose prose sometimes borders poetry. She researched through the memories of the elders......more

Goodreads review by Sara on December 22, 2010

I was excited to read a first edition copy thanks to my good friend, Adam. The book itself felt so wonderful in my hands, and it felt like I was opening a real treasure. The story itself was magical, beginning in Santa Fe, moving to New York City, and ending back in Santa Fe. I loved reading about F......more

Goodreads review by Lydia on February 04, 2012

Original review posted here Have you heard of Anya Seton? I sure hadn’t. I’m not sure what possessed me to put this book on my TBR list back in 2009, but THANK GOODNESS I did. Because y’all, this book was magnificent. It was published first in 1946, and the copy I got from the library was bound in one......more

Goodreads review by Heather ~*dread mushrooms*~ on September 11, 2017

Superbly written, but this ended up being my least favorite Seton so far. The story was dull for me. None of the main characters held much interest for me, and I didn't care about their respective ambitions.......more

Goodreads review by Renata on March 20, 2016

Anya Seton should be so much more well-known than she is. She is one of the first writers to do careful exhaustive research on her subject matter, thus making her fictional stories works of literature which educate as well as entertain. Now, there are so many good authors in the historical fiction f......more