Elizabeth Oldham News
Keep up with Elizabeth Oldham’s newest releases and musings on writing, outdoor life, animal adventures and love and loss in the mountains of southern BC.
Shadows on the Heart
Lita Bravo, a thirty-two year old tattooed, amateur mixed martial arts fighter who lives in the high desert of Arizona’s Mule Mountains, has built herself a life far from the chaos of her childhood and family. She’s never met her nieces or nephew and hasn’t seen her mom in eighteen years. But when her brother and his wife die in an accident, Lita gains custody not only of his three children but also her mother who’s got dementia and doesn’t recognize her.
Shadows on the Heart follows Lita, her twelve-year-old niece Jade, and her mom Evie as they to adjust to loss, grief and change and as they struggle to find their place together as a family. Shadows touches on themes of love, family and forgiveness amidst the backdrop of the high desert in the US southwest.
Tail of Humanity
King, a scarred mixed-breed dog with five different names under his collar, would never claim to be man’s best friend. His ‘mans haven’t all been friendly, and so far life’s been dominated by hunger, hurt, and homelessness. King’s had to create laws for survival, like the essential Law #1: See Food, Eat Food. And when he’s saved from a desperate situation by Rose, a fellow hound with teardrop ears and a bark like gravy, he sticks by her side and decides to give up on ‘mans. But a dog’s life is not his own, and when he and Rose are violently separated, King vows to find her, even if it means leaving the kind, patient ‘man who’s just entered his life.
