Of Places and Rainbows: A Tale of Love Found and Lost

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Of Places and Rainbows is an emotional journey set in rigid Mormon country in the 1960's. It's a bravely honest story about Kathy, a young girl who was forced to give up her dreams of college, career and love for a lonely, joyless marriage.
The places she lived in along the way framed her tormented life –the way she worked and played and cried and fiercely protected her children.

When she was eighteen she traded a university dormitory for a tiny, castaway house where, frightened and inexperienced, she struggled to become a wife and learned to be a mother. Then she fled to the edge; the edge of the desert, the edge of adulthood where she forged bonds with young friends but came face to face with the fragility of life and death’s dark permanence. In the valley of the golden trees she discovered beauty was deceiving and the people and creatures who lived there were both noble and cruel. Through the struggle to hold on to what was hers she fought those evil forces and in the effort found her strength and her voice. And finally, before her 30th birthday she came back to the beginning – back to the city where she was born and the mountains she loved. She risked everything to reach out to the boy she had left behind and paid a tragic price for love.