Before the Rain Falls: A Novel

After serving seventy years in prison for the murder of her sister, Eula, Della Lee has finally returned home to the Texas town of Puerto Pesar. Shes free from confinementand ready to tell her secrets before its too late.

She finds a willing audience in journalist Mick Anders, who is reeling after his suspension from a Boston newspaper and in town, reluctantly, to investigate a mysterious portrait of Eula that reportedly sheds tears. He crosses paths with Dr. Paloma Vega, whos visiting Puerto Pesar with her own mission: to take care of her ailing grandmother and to rescue her rebellious younger sister before something terrible happens. Paloma and Mick have their reasons to be in the hot, parched border town whose name translates as Port of Regret. But they dont anticipate how their lives will be changed forever.

Moving and engrossing, this dual story alternates between Dellas dark ordeals of the 1940s and Paloma and Micks present-day search for answersabout roots, family, love, and what is truly important in life.