"The Summerland"
T.L. Schaefer

Mariposa is a beautiful blink-and-you-miss-it Gold Rush town on the border of Yosemite National Park. Sheriff Bill Ashton's life is good, quiet, until the bodies of five women are discovered in the remote foothills and all hell breaks loose. Then another woman disappears, leaving her estranged sister's stolen car and half a million in cash behind as their only clues.

Air Force Captain Arden Jones hasn't spoken to her sister in years, but Samantha's disappearance galvanizes her, sending her to small-town America in search of the black sheep of the family.

Thrown together by circumstance, Bill and Arden explore Samantha's disappearance and her probable connection to the murdered women. Neither expects, nor welcomes, the attraction that surges between them, or the fact that setting aside long-held beliefs may be the only way to stop a madman bent on creating the perfect woman, the one true goddess central to the Wiccan religion, Diana.

pgs. 294
Word Count - 75,100

Review:

4 1/2 Stars
THE SUMMERLAND
T. L. Schaefer
Atlantic Bridge Publishing
December 2000
ISBN: 0-9706913-0-0

Mystery

The plot is composed, and nicely so, of a number of diverse elements.

The bodies of five women, all shot in the forehead, are discovered in a remote area near Yosemite. They are arranged in a pattern that indicates they are, perhaps, the victims in some sort of ritual--although Sheriff Bill Ashton is baffled as to the ritual's origin.

A red convertible containing a large amount of money is found in a rest area. Its driver, a female, is missing--and her sister, Arden Jones, an officer in the Air Force, arrives to add her presence to the mix.

There is a witch's coven operating in the vicinity.

And then there is the attraction--hot and immediate--between the sheriff and the sister.

THE SUMMERLAND is a rich and fascinating read--one with likable characters (except maybe the killer and a few others), a tangled plot, and enough suspense to keep you up late at night. I even liked the ambiguity of the resolution, the wealth of information about Wicca, and the small town flavor. It didn't detract to have a sheriff who is a hunk with a brain and a military woman with beauty and an attitude.

Reviewed by Patricia Lucas White
http://www.scribesworld.com/reviews/

About the Author:

Terri “T.L.” Schaefer was born and raised in Mariposa, a rural enclave of Yosemite National Park.  After briefly pursuing a college education, Yosemite Valley beckoned her homeward, where she lived and worked for five years in the shadow of Half Dome.   She met her husband in 1990, and was married in 1991.  Giving up her "real" job as a hotel assistant manager and her off-time pursuits as a volunteer firefighter, she followed her husband in his career as an Air Force medic.  Since then they have been all over the world, living in Portugal for three years and visiting many European locales.

Terri has been writing since before she can remember--everything from letters to the editor to short stories.  The Schaefers have since settled in Northern Oklahoma where she works as an executive secretary for the Department of Defense.  The Summerland is Terri's first published work.

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