TWOsday ~ two new books

Never Let Go ~ by Elizabeth Goddard, 2019, fiction

As a forensic genealogist, Willow Anderson is following in her late grandfather's footsteps in her quest for answers about a baby abducted from the hospital more than twenty years ago.  The case may be cold, but things are about to heat up when someone makes an attempt on her life to keep her from discovering the truth.  Ex-FBI agent — and Willow's ex-flame — Austin McKade readily offers his help to protect the woman he never should have let get away.  Together they'll follow where the clues lead them, even if it means Austin must face the past he's spent much of his life trying to forget.

Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage, and Survival ~ by Velma Wallis, 1993, fiction

Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine. Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying. In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wallis depicts a landscape and way of life that are at once merciless and starkly beautiful. In her old women, she has created two heroines of steely determination whose story of betrayal, friendship, community, and forgiveness "speaks straight to the heart with clarity, sweetness, and wisdom" (Ursula K. Le Guin).

I added these two books to my Kindle this evening, even though I haven't read 97 of the 265 books (total) now on my Kindle. So many books, so little time.