Bosque Press

Walker Walker (Alibi Creek Tales)

Sara — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 01:12:49 +0000

Following a two-year prison stint, Walker Walker returns to his family’s New Mexico ranch where Lee Ann, his pious older sister, takes care of their ailing mother, raises two sons, and grapples with the unethical workplace demands at the county commissioner’s office. Walker immediately takes to his old ways, instigating a property scam with his ex-wife and former cellmate. His reckless life careens into Lee Ann’s careful one, forcing her to examine their sibling bond and question her beliefs.

Bev Magennis was born in Toronto, Canada. After a long career as a visual artist, she began writing in her sixties, inspired by a remote region of New Mexico where she lived for seventeen years. Bev was awarded a 2010 PEN Center Emerging Voices Fellowship and received a Norman Mailer Fiction Fellowship in 2011.

Nothing Fancy (Alibi Creek Tales)

Sara — Mon, 02 May 2022 01:11:15 +0000

Emilia, a devoted mother, and her widowed son, Monte, live a mile apart on an isolated ranch in southwestern New Mexico. Bound by tradition and affection, their lives are routine and predictable. Enter Marla, an exotic stranger needing a favor, who seduces Monte and moves into his house, claiming love at first sight. Distant and evasive, she claims to work on line and to require nothing more than her laptop and the contents of her suitcase. She is obviously a city girl. Won’t she get bored? Has she no obligations? Where is her family? Lust and suspicion drive a wedge between mother and son as Emilia searches for answers.

Equity (Alibi Creek Tales)

Sara — Sun, 01 May 2022 01:07:22 +0000

Equity is the story of three men: Moose, a New Mexico rancher who murders his wife and in-laws; Clay, the undersheriff who attempts to arrest him; and Lyle, the aging sheriff who returns from vacation to find his loyal undersheriff missing and three dead. When Moose presents an airtight alibi, Lyle administers his own brand of justice, intent on forcing a showdown where he can shoot Moose in self-defense. In this literary assemblage, events overlap and intertwine to reveal each man’s agenda, motives, and punishment.

Desplazado (Alibi Creek Tales)

Sara — Sun, 01 May 2022 20:20:57 +0000

June, a widow living alone in the New Mexico wilderness, offers room and board to a Mexican man who has entered the United States illegally. While her relationship with Fidel deepens, a letter from a distant uncle informs June, who was adopted at birth, that she has biological siblings living close to the Arizona/Mexico border. June longs to bond with kin, but their views threaten her attachment to Fidel, raising issues of loyalty, trust, compassion, and prejudice.